[548] William had resolved many months before not to refuse his assent a second time to so popular a law.

[549] There was some however who thought that he would not have made so great a concession if he had on that day been quite himself.
It was plain indeed that he was strangely agitated and unnerved.

It had been announced that he would dine in public at Whitehall.

But he disappointed the curiosity of the multitude which on such occasions flocked to the Court, and hurried back to Kensington.

[550] He had but too good reason to be uneasy.