To Shield the Queen
“Five long weeks. Amy is as ill and as nervous as ever she was and I am no nearer learning the truth. Are her fears soundly based or not? I don’t know. And oh, how I wish I could hear from Matthew.
It was a month since Matthew had left, and Thomas Blount and Arthur Robsart had left early the next day. For all I had heard of Matthew since, he might never have existed. I had had no message, no letter. There was nothing I could do. I could not go back to court to seek word of him. I had not left Cu...mnor Place once; not even for a walk round the home farm or a short ride. Amy needed me too much. Duty and compassion (not to mention the feeling that I must earn my pay) bound me within the walls of Cumnor as firmly as their vows bound the monks of bygone days.
I crossed the parlour to pause, as I often did, at the window. If only Matthew would ride in again. But the courtyard was empty.
In the parlour, just behind me, Amy and Pinto were sitting, Amy trying listlessly to do some embroidery, and Pinto mending some garment or other.MoreLess
It was a month since Matthew had left, and Thomas Blount and Arthur Robsart had left early the next day. For all I had heard of Matthew since, he might never have existed. I had had no message, no letter. There was nothing I could do. I could not go back to court to seek word of him. I had not left Cu...mnor Place once; not even for a walk round the home farm or a short ride. Amy needed me too much. Duty and compassion (not to mention the feeling that I must earn my pay) bound me within the walls of Cumnor as firmly as their vows bound the monks of bygone days.
I crossed the parlour to pause, as I often did, at the window. If only Matthew would ride in again. But the courtyard was empty.
In the parlour, just behind me, Amy and Pinto were sitting, Amy trying listlessly to do some embroidery, and Pinto mending some garment or other.MoreLess
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