Queen's Ransom
“Fran and Roger Brockley were a married couple, although they hadn’t married until they had joined my service, and I still called Fran by her maiden name of Dale. They were in their forties, both of them—a solid and reliable pair, though Dale did have a tendency to grumble and I had never been able to stop Brockley from hinting that my way of earning a living was unsuitable for a lady and he wished I would settle down to a more becoming (and safer) way of life. At least, if not precisely safe, t...he journey for which we were preparing was quite private. It was an errand of mercy, connected with my first husband’s family. This was Blanchard business. Gerald and I had married against the wishes of our respective families and when I was first widowed, and applied for financial help to his father, I was coldly refused. But that was before I joined the court and rose in the favor of the queen. My former father-in-law, Luke Blanchard, somehow got to hear that his son’s despised widow was prinking around the court in expensive damask dresses, had been seen in friendly conversation with Elizabeth, was on visiting terms with the Secretary of State and his wife, and that Meg, my daughter, was being fostered by a family who were friends of the Cecils.MoreLess
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