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 what she wants. One can count upon nothing—she's a woman. I wonder for what purpose she comes here! Look you, a woman's heart is an enigma, whereof King Frangois the First wrote the answer on the window-pane at Chambord:—

Hark ye, Master Æneas, we are old friends. This must end to-day. All are at your orders here. If you are bid—


 * [He whispers in  ear.

Delay the business, shrewdly bring it to nought. Let me have but two hours to-night, and what I wish is done; to-morrow, no favourite, I am all-powerful, and day after to-morrow you are a baronet and Lieutenant of the Tower. Is it agreed?

Master Æneas.Agreed.

Renard.'Tis well. I hear footsteps. We must not be seen together. Go you that way. I go to meet the Queen.

[They separate.

The Gaoler.You are where you wished to be, my lady. Yonder are the doors of the two dungeons. Now, may it please you, my reward.

[ detaches her diamond bracelet and gives it to him.

Jane.Here it is.

The Gaoler.Thanks. Do not betray me. [Exit.

Jane [alone.]Great Heaven! what am I to do? 'Tis I who destroyed him, and it is for me to save him. I shall never succeed. A woman can do