You have lived as free as air.

You have disdained,--and though I may have grumbled I have still been proud to see you disdain,--to wrap yourself in the swaddling bandages of Court life.

You have ridiculed all those who have been near her Majesty as Court ladies." "The individuals, Plantagenet, perhaps; but not the office.

I am getting older now, and I do not see why I should not begin a new life." She had been somewhat quelled by his unexpected energy, and was at the moment hardly able to answer him with her usual spirit.
"Do not think of it, my dear.

You asked whether your rank was high enough.