A Court Affair
“I was sorry to see her go, but she had many commissions awaiting her, including miniatures of my husband and the Queen. Though coaxing the truth out of her was like pulling a tooth, she wanted so to spare me, in the end she confessed that these were gifts they meant to exchange; she would have his, and he would have hers. What had happened to my own miniature, the one Robert had ridden away from Hemsby wearing against his heart? I never saw it again. It was like a prophecy made in paint but ful...filled in flesh and blood. I had indeed become that melancholy, solemn-faced young matron, even though I didn’t want to be her. I wanted to be that happy, smiling, loved and loving bride again, that radiant, confident, carefree girl with the wild, tumbling, harvest gold hair, who lay with her yellow skirts rucked up in a bed of buttercups by the river, safe in the arms of the boy she loved, watching the clouds roll by and dreaming of the future that lay before them. I wanted a beautiful, radiant, golden phoenix to rise from the ugly black and grey ashes of my life.MoreLess
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