The Galliard
“He blamed it, as he had blamed all the bad weather since her arrival in that dark haar, on the Queen; she, the daughter of ‘mischievous Mary’, was proving to the full as mischievous, especially in the matter of bad harvests, floods and frosts and all occasions when ‘neither sun nor moon have performed their appropriate offices’. After her long illness and convalescence, and a Christmas which she was too sad and listless to enjoy, Mary went at the end of December, informally with very few attend...ants, to ‘make merry’ at the New Year with her brother Johnnie at his house at Coldinghame, as she had promised a year ago. She was the only one to keep that promise, for d’Elboeuf had long since gone back to France, and nobody, not even Jan, knew where Bothwell was.There was one other that Johnnie had vowed should be there – a fine boy a few weeks old, whose arrival had transformed Jan into a preternaturally wise and mature person. She smiled indulgently on the pranks of her husband and his royal guest as though they were a couple of children.MoreLess
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