[672] She was received with many signs of joy and affection: but her demeanour shocked the Tories, and was not thought faultless even by the Whigs.

A young woman, placed, by a destiny as mournful and awful as that which brooded over the fabled houses of Labdacus and Pelops, in such a situation that she could not, without violating her duty to her God, her husband, and her country, refuse to take her seat on the throne from which her father had just been hurled, should have been sad, or at least serious.

Mary was not merely in high, but in extravagant, spirits.
She entered Whitehall, it was asserted, with a girlish delight at being mistress of so fine a house, ran about the rooms, peeped into the closets, and examined the quilt of the state bed, without seeming to remember by whom those magnificent apartments had last been occupied.
Burnet, who had, till then, thought her an angel in human form, could not, on this occasion, refrain from blaming her.

He was the more astonished because, when he took leave of her at the Hague, she had, though fully convinced that she was in the path of duty, been deeply dejected.

To him, as to her spiritual guide, she afterwards explained her conduct.