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Mayerne, was made master of the secret, which he carried to France and communicated to the Duke of Mayenne, who performed many cures by means of it, and taught it to his surgeon, who, after the Duke's death, sold it to many distinguished persons, by whose agency it soon ceased to be a secret. What was this wonderful substance which so astonished kings, princes, dukes, knights, and doctors?
'I would have come to life again in time to enjoy the "coup de theatre". I had some thoughts of trying an overdose of opium; but I thought Dr. Mayerne would have found me out. I tell you, because it is fair I should have the credit; for, Guy, if you knew what she was to me all the winter, you would perceive my superhuman generosity in not receiving you as my greatest enemy.
'She has not been looking well lately, but Dr. Mayerne says it is nothing, and you know' she blushed and looked down 'there were many things to make this a trying time. 'Is she quite strong? Can she do as much as usual? 'She does more than ever: mamma is only afraid of her overworking herself, but she never allows that she is tired.
'Bolton thinks him rather better, and says he is getting up. 'How long have you been up? 'A long time. I told Arnaud to catch Markham when he came up, as he always does in a morning to see after Philip, and I have had a conference with him and Bolton, so that I can lay the case before Dr. Mayerne scientifically. 'What do you think of it? 'I think we came at the right time.
Mayerne said there was nothing really the matter: but she has been worried and out of spirits lately; and mamma thought it would be good for her to go out more. Philip would not let himself sigh, in spite of the oppressing consciousness of having brought the cloud over her, and of his own inability to do aught but leave her to endure it in silence and patience. Alas! for how long!
Loubel told Coke that he had given Overbury nothing but the physic prescribed by Sir Theodore Mayerne, the King's physician, and that in his opinion Overbury had died of consumption. With this evidence Coke was very strangely content or, at least, content as far as Loubel was concerned, for this witness was not summoned again.
The project was thoroughly discussed that evening, but still with the feeling as if it could not be real, and when they parted at night they said, 'We will see how the scheme looks in the morning. Charles was still wondering whether it was a dream, when the first thing he heard in the court below his window was 'Here, William, here's a note from my lady for you to take to Dr. Mayerne.
On his arrival back in London he was taken violently ill, so ill that in the weeks he lay in bed his life was despaired of. Only the intervention of the King's own physician, one Sir Theodore Mayerne, would appear to have saved him. Her husband slowly convalescing, Lady Essex was summoned by her family back to London.
Amabel was not afraid of the sole charge of Charles or of the baby, for she had been taught but too well to manage for herself, she understood Charles very well, and had too much quiet good sense to be fanciful about her very healthy baby. Though she was inexperienced, with old nurse hard by, and Dr. Mayerne at Broadstone, there was no fear of her not having good counsel enough.
Her confession, however, shackled Somerset at his trial. It put her at the King's mercy. Without endangering her life Somerset dared not come to the crux of his defence, which would have been to demand why Loubel had been allowed to go free, and why the King's physician, Mayerne, had not been examined.
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