JANE.
Heaven! He will be anxious too.
[Seeing the shadow of The Queen.
My God! what is that, Joshua?
JOSHUA (low, taking her hand).
Silence! It is the lioness, on the watch.
[While Jane looks at this figure in horror, a distant voice, which seems to come from above, pronounces these words slowly and distinctly.
VOICE.
The man, covered with a black veil, who follows me, is the very high and mighty Lord Fabiano Fabiani, Earl of Clanbrassil, Baron of Dinasmonddy, Baron of Darmouth in Devonshire, who is to be beheaded at the London Market-Place, for the crimes of regicide and high treason. God have mercy on his soul!
ANOTHER VOICE.