As a matter of fact, it has been given to Sir Rudolph Fleming, a Norman knight and a creature of the prince.

The king has also, I hear, promised to him the hand of the young Lady Margaret, when she shall become of marriageable age.

At present she is placed in a convent in Worcester.

The abbess is, I believe, a friend of the late earl, and the girl had been with her for some time previously.

Indeed she went there, I think, when her father left England.