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Chiffinch being in her interest, Miss Stewart could have no warning of the visit; and Babiani, who owed all to the Duchess of Cleveland, and who served her admirably well upon this occasion, came and told her that the Duke of Richmond had just gone into Miss Stewart's chamber.
Chiffinch would be after me perhaps, and would try to prevent me, I went on as quick as I could, turned a corner or two in that maze of passages, and stopped again. As yet I had no idea as to what to do; my brain burned with horror and fury; and I stood there in the dark, clenching my hands again and again, with my whip in one of them.
However; that is as it may be. What do you want to see me for, Mr. Mallock?" So first I drew out from my waistcoat the packet I had taken from under my shirt, and put there, while Mr. Chiffinch was away. "Sir;" I said, "I have brought your packet back again. I have had no word from you as to its delivery; and as I must go abroad to-day I dare keep it no longer.
Chiffinch got for me from my Lord Peterborough, that I might have a good place; and I had a very good one; for it was in a little gallery that looked down into the well of the court, so that I could see all that I wished, and the faces of all the prisoners, judges and witnesses, and yet by leaning back could avoid observation for I had no wish, for others' sake, if not for my own, to be recognized by any of the witnesses.
Chiffinch for the most part, though there were some matters I was able rather to inform him about, that there were two separate and distinct parties amongst the conspirators.
"Mistress Chiffinch," said the King, with a hesitation which he could not disguise, "I hope your fair charge is not about to leave you?" "Certainly not, your Majesty," answered Chiffinch. "Alice, my love you mistake that opposite door leads to your apartments." "Pardon me, madam," answered Alice; "I have indeed mistaken my road, but it was when I came hither."
"You should be very modest with His Majesty," he said, "if you would please him. And when Mr. Chiffinch said that I knew that he was lying to me; for the very opposite was the truth; and I understood that he still had his suspicions of me and wished me to fail with the King. But I nodded wisely, and thanked him.
There were no more questions I wished to ask at present; though there might be others later. "Well," said the page, a little eagerly; and his narrow face looked very like a fox's, as he spoke. "Well; and what is your news?" I finished my stew, and laid down the spoon. "Mr. Chiffinch," said I, "let me first ask one more question. Why do you think that my Lord Essex was after me at all?
Having escaped with some difficulty from the vague region of general compliments, which bears the same relation to that of business that Milton informs us the Limbo Patrum has to the sensible and material earth, Christian asked his Grace of Buckingham, with the same blunt plainness with which he usually veiled a very deep and artificial character, whether he had lately seen Chiffinch or his helpmate?
"It is for fear," whined Chiffinch, "that your Majesty should think that you should expect " "That I should expect gratitude from a courtier, or faith from a woman?" answered the King, patting her at the same time under the chin, to make her raise her face "Tush! chicken, I am not so superfluous."
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