Her husband was well pleased to see her thus connected with the court of the Hague.

Whenever he wished to transmit a secret message to Holland, he spoke to his wife: she wrote to Sidney; and Sidney communicated her letter to William.

One of her communications was intercepted and carried to James.

She vehemently protested that it was a forgery.

Her husband, with characteristic ingenuity, defended himself by representing that it was quite impossible for any man to be so base as to do what he was in the habit of doing.