It was a terrible interview.

This time it was she who threatened, the man who entreated pardon.

Marie was deaf to his prayers, and the head of the luckless man fell bleeding at her feet, and her men threw the body into the sea.

But God never allows a murder to go unpunished: James preferred the queen to her sister, and the widow of Charles of Durazzo gained nothing by her crime but the contempt of the man she loved, and a bitter remorse which brought her while yet young to the tomb.
Joan was married in turn to James of Aragon, son of the King of Majorca, and to Otho of Brunswick, of the imperial family of Saxony.

We will pass rapidly over these years, and come to the denouement of this history of crime and expiation.