But ye shall reunite above. For me
The heart’s blank widowhood must be for ever.
Jane! on thy block the throned queen envies thee!”
She is full of her own betrayal by Courtenaye—a wrong which has left a more cruel wound than all the plots of treason have effected.
Here Gardiner and Fakenham enter to announce that Brett and Wyatt are taken. Presently, after a burst of fevered excitement, she says:
“I want
To see Jane Grey-after her widowhood.
Fakenham [aside]. After?—She then shall live.
Gardiner [aside]. Observe, she raves.
Mary. We’ll sit together in some forest nook,