Under her government the country would be in no danger of being overrun either by Jesuits or by Dutchmen.

That Marlborough had the strongest motives for placing her on the throne was evident.

He could never, in the court of her father, be more than a repentant criminal, whose services were overpaid by a pardon.

In her court the husband of her adored friend would be what Pepin Heristal and Charles Martel had been to the Chilperics and Childeberts.

He would be the chief director of the civil and military government.