And am I not to name
you?"
"I pray your Highness to be silent, unless the Duchess should divine
the worker. Nay, it is scarce to be thought that she will."
"Yet you have put the flower that my English mother called 'Forget-
me-not.' Ah, maiden, has it a purpose?"
"Madame, madame, ask me no questions. Only remember in your prayers
to ask that I may do the right," said Grisell, with clasped hands and
weeping eyes.
CHAPTER XXIX--DUCHESS MARGARET
I beheld the pageants splendid, that adorned those days of old;
Stately dames, like queens attended, knights who bore the Fleece of
Gold.
LONGFELLOW, The Belfry of Bruges.
In another week the festivities were over, and she waited anxiously,
dreading each day more and more that her gift had been forgotten or
misunderstood, or that her old companion disdained or refused to take
notice of her; then trying to console herself by remembering the
manifold engagements and distractions of the bride.
Happily, Grisell thought, Ridley was absent when Leonard Copeland
came one evening to supper. He was lodged among the guards of the
Duke in the palace, and had much less time at his disposal than
formerly, for Duke Charles insisted on the most strict order and
discipline among all his attendants. Moreover, there were tokens of
enmity on the part of the French on the border of the Somme, and
Leonard expected to be despatched to the camp which was being formed
there.
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