“In the third Book of Moses, the twentieth and twenty-first chapters, I read the following—but you will not be angry with your servant?”
“Read.”
“These are the Lord’s solemn words: ‘If any man take his brother’s wife, it is evil; they shall be childless.’”
The King was excited, and approached the Cardinal.
“Is that there? Yes, truly! God has punished me by taking my sons one after the other. What a wonderful book, in which everything is written! That is the reason then! But what says Thomas Aquinas, the ‘Angel’ of the Schoolmen?”
“Yes, sire, if you wish the matter elucidated, we must consult the learned.”
“Let us do so,—but quietly and cautiously. The Queen is blameless, and nothing evil must happen to her. Quietly and cautiously, Wolsey! But I must know the truth.”
In a room near the “Bloody Tower,” the Cardinal and More were carrying on a lively conversation.
“What is happening now in Germany?” asked the Cardinal.