'Why, Privy Seal shall make amends,' the King answered. 'It was his man that did miscall thee. Therefore, Privy Seal shall come to dine with thee, and shall, in the presence of all men, hold out to thee his hand.'
'Let him come, then, with great state,' the bishop stuck to his note.
'Aye, with a great state,' the King answered. 'I will have an end to these quarrels.'
He set his hand cordially upon Privy Seal's shoulder.
'For thee,' he said, 'I would have thee think between now and the assembling of the Parliaments of what title thou wilt have to an earldom.'
Cromwell fell upon one knee, and, in Latin, made three words of a speech of thanks.
'Why, good man,' the King said, 'art a man very valuable to me.' His eyes rested upon Katharine for a moment. 'I am well watched for by one and the other of you,' he went on. 'Each of you by now has brought me a letter of this lady's.'
Katharine cried out at Gardiner:
'You too!'
His eyes sought the ground, and then looked defiantly into hers.