“I have the Queens warrant,” rejoined Dudley, sternly.
“The person of an ambassador is sacred,” observed Renard.
“The emperor, Charles the Fifth, will resent this outrage as an insult to himself.”
“I will take the consequences upon myself,” replied Lord Guilford, carelessly.
“Your highness will not suffer this wrong to be done?” said Renard, addressing Jane.
“Monsieur Renard,” replied the queen, “I have reason to believe you have played me false. If I find you have deceived me, though you were brother to the emperor, you shall lose your head.”
“You will have cause to repent this step,” rejoined Renard, furiously. “The council will command my instant release.”
“The order must be speedy then,” replied Dudley, “for I shall place them all in arrest. And here, as luck will have it, are your friends the Earls of Arundel and Pembroke. They will attend you to the White Tower.”
So saying, he motioned to the guards to take them into custody.
“What means this?” cried Pembroke in astonishment.