But once in London the story begins to concentrate.

It is clear there was danger for Jehane.

King Richard, it seems, caused her to be lodged 'in a place of nuns over the river, in a place which is called in English Lamehithe.' This was quite true; danger there was, as Richard saw, who knew his mother.

But he did not then know how quick with danger the times were.
The Queen-Mother had upon her the letter of Don Sancho the Wise, and to her the politics of Europe were an open book.

One holy war succeeded another, and one king; but what king that might be depended neither upon holiness nor war so much as on the way each was used.