Others noticed the act. As they passed Lord Milborough’s chair, he murmured—
“Queens command.”
Anne took no notice. As soon as they were seated, she said to Wareham—
“Now for your apology.”
“My apology?”
“I wrote, and you did not bestow upon me so much as a line. Were you afraid that I should trade with your autograph?”
“Folly is not yet quite rampant in man. I answered by obeying.”
She turned a little towards him.
“It is not a bad house to stay in. One has one’s liberty.” The next moment she added—“Do you know my step-mother?”
“No.”