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Accordingly, the Queen and her household were startled with a visit from Sir Thomas de Vaux, requesting the present attendance of the Lady Calista of Montfaucon, the Queen's principal bower-woman, upon King Richard. "What am I to say, madam?" said the trembling attendant to the Queen, "He will slay us all." "Nay, fear not, madam," said De Vaux.
Now we shall have von pleasant talking togeder, you and I. You know de duties of de bower-woman? or I tell dem you?" "Would you tell me, an' it please you?" answered Amphillis, modestly. "I do not know much, I dare say." "Gut! Now, listen. In de morning, you are ready before your lady calls; you keep not her awaiting.
The rules of etiquette at that time were chains indeed; and the daughter of a tradesman was not in a position to be bower-woman to a lady of title. How had her cousin come there? "What sayest, then," asked Ricarda, with a triumphant smile, "to know that my Lady Foljambe sent to covenant with me by reason that she was so full fain of thee that she desired another of thy kin?"
"Ah! honoured dame, we come even now from laying her in her grave. Here is her orphan boy." Young Agnes could not restrain a cry of grief and horror, and trying to repress her weeping till it should be without so many witnesses, Lady Muriel and her bower-woman led her to their apartments in the inn. Eustace was greatly affected by her grief.
Elspeth did not think it proper to notice these discontented expressions of Tibbie, but they sunk into her mind; for she was apt to consider her as a sort of authority in matters of war and policy, with which her former experience as bower-woman at Avenel Castle made her better acquainted than were the peaceful inhabitants of Halidome.
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