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This idea once admitted, jealousy of the crudest and most unreasonable

kind assailed her Incidents, words, looks, long forgotten rushed back

upon her memory, and fed the flame Very likely, if she left her child

and went to London, she ht find Lady Suffolk in attendance on her

husband, or at least be compelled for his life's sake to submit to her

visits She pondered this supposition until it brought forth one still

et her up to

London Perhaps she ht disappear there What, then, would be done to

her child? If Richard Hyde was so infatuated with Lady Suffolk, what

e fortune? Even the news of Lady

Capel's death was now food for her suspicions Was she dead, or was the

assertion only a part of the conspiracy? If she had been dead, Sir

Thomas Swaffham would have heard of the death; yet she had seen hi, and he had o," she decided "There is some wicked plan for

me The will and the papers are wanted, that they may be altered to

suit it I will stay here with reat as mine is

best borne in one's own hoet the papers When she opened the