For offences much smaller than those which might probably be brought home to Lady Churchill he had sent women to the scaffold and the stake.

Strong affection braced the feeble mind of the Princess.

There was no tie which she would not break, no risk which she would not run, for the object of her idolatrous affection.

"I will jump out of the window," she cried, "rather than be found here by my father." The favourite undertook to manage an escape.
She communicated in all haste with some of the chiefs of the conspiracy.
In a few hours every thing was arranged.

That evening Anne retired to her chamber as usual.