Anne Boleyn: a Novel (2014)
“she said. “From now on, my quietness won’t offend you. When I come here again I shall remember to knock.”
Anne moved one step forward, her right hand touched her throat in the gesture that was once coquettish and was becoming a nervous habit.
“If you tried to make George as good a wife as I am a sister,” she remarked sharply, “you might find him more often in your rooms instead of mine!”
Jane Rochford looked at her for a moment and slowly looked away.
“I doubt if I’ll ever accomplish that. George, your father wants you. That’s all I came to tell you.”
Anne turned her back and rested the toe of her red brocade shoe on the rim of the empty grate. They heard the door close again, and footsteps fading down the corridor.
“She’s gone to cry and abuse me for not loving her, as usual,” George remarked. He stretched. “Lord God, why did she have to hold the Rochford estates?”
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