All that he desired was to be quiet for a space somewhere in "her high Majesty's good realm," till his way was clear to him.
"You would return to Jersey, then, with our friend of Rozel ?" Elizabeth said, with a gesture towards Lempriere, who, now recovered from his wound, was present at the audience.
De la Foret inclined his head.

"If it be your high Majesty's pleasure." And Lempriere of Rozel said: "He would return with myself your noble Majesty's friend before all the world, and Buonespoir his ship the Honeyflower." Elizabeth's lips parted in a smile, for she was warmed with the luxury of doing good, and she answered: "I know not what the end of this will be, whether our loyal Lempriere will become a pirate or Buonespoir a butler to my Court; but it is too pretty a hazard to forego in a world of chance.

By the rood, but I have never, since I sat on my father's throne, seen black so white as I have done this past three months.

You shall have your Buonespoir, good Rozel; but if he plays pirate any more--tell him this from his Queen--upon an English ship, I will have his head, if I must needs send Drake of Devon to overhaul him." That same hour the Queen sent for Angele, and by no leave, save her own, arranged the wedding-day, and ordained that it should take place at Southampton, whither the Comtesse de Montgomery had come on her way to Greenwich to plead for the life of Michel de la Foret, and to beg Elizabeth to relieve her poverty.

Both of which things Elizabeth did, as the annals of her life record.
After Elizabeth--ever self-willed--had declared her way about the marriage ceremony, looking for no reply save that of silent obedience, she made Angele sit at her feet and tell her whole story again from first to last.