Hurriedly she unlocked the handcuffs and released him, then as he rose and stretched his cramped arms—
"You are my world," he laughed. "A woman's love is all the world to a man. Do you want the earth? I'll conquer that and lay it at your feet, if you'll only let me feel the touch of your hand again. And now you're angry! You were just as angry the first time we met, and the second time, and the third—you looked most glorious of all that third time! Warn Margaret of danger and she gets furious, the greater the peril the more royal her rage—the fighting blood all roused before I can speak of peril. What man ever had the courage of the Queen?"
"Oh!" she laughed, trying to rub away the sudden flush with her white fingers. "Everything's so different now. Tell me."
"The same rose, the same thorns—I daren't!"
"Oh, please tell me."
"There's treason inside the Palace."
"Oh, surely not!"
"The Lord Protector has bribed the Captain of the Guard."
"Gloucester? Impossible!"
"He has been offered the throne."