Dublin had been to the easily impressible mind of her early
playmate, and how much it had transformed her whole being. Lady
Jane, once so sprightly and gay, had become a bigoted Romanist, who,
with fanatical zeal, believed that she was serving God when she
served the Church, and paid unreserved obedience to her priests.

Lady Jane Douglas had therefore--thanks to her fanaticism and the
teachings of the priests--become a complete dissembler. She could
smile, while in her heart she secretly brooded over hatred and
revenge. She could kiss the lips of those whose destruction she had
perhaps just sworn. She could preserve a harmless, innocent air,
while she observed everything, and took notice of every breath,
every smile, every movement of the eyelashes.

Hence it was very important for Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, to
bring his "friend" of the queen to court, and make of this disciple
of Loyola an ally and friend.

Lady Jane Douglas was alone; and, pacing up and down her room, she
thought over the events of the day.

Now, that no one was observing her, she had laid aside that gentle,
serious mien, which one was wont to see about her at other times;
her countenance betrayed in rapid changes all the various sad and
cheerful, tempestuous and tender feelings which agitated her.

She who had hitherto had only one aim before her eyes, to serve the
Church, and to consecrate her whole life to this service; she whose
heart had been hitherto open only to ambition and devotion, she felt
to-day wholly new and never-suspected feelings springing up within