If indeed he is not out of favor, the Company may find in him a powerful friend; of powerful enemies, God knows, there is no lack!" Thus the worthy Master Ferrar.

And at the bottom of the letter, among other news of city and court, mention was made of the disappearance of a ward of the King's, the Lady Jocelyn Leigh.

Strict search had been made, but the unfortunate lady had not been found.

"'T is whispered that she hath killed herself; also, that his Majesty had meant to give her in marriage to my Lord Carnal.

But that all true love and virtue and constancy have gone from the age, one might conceive that the said lord had but fled the court for a while, to indulge his grief in some solitude of hill and stream and shady vale,--the lost lady being right worthy of such dole." In sooth she was, but my lord was not given to such fashion of mourning.
The summer passed, and I did nothing.