To this De la Forêt replied that he had given his heart and life to one cause, and since Montgomery had lost all, even life, the least Michel de la Forêt could do was to see that the woman who loved him be not unprotected in the world. Also, since he might not at this present fight for the cause, he could speak for it; and he thanked the Queen of England for having shown him his duty. 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 Lemprière, who, now recovered from his wound, was present at the audience. De la Forêt inclined his head. “If it be your high Majesty’s pleasure.” And Lemprière 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 Lemprière 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 Angèle, 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 Forêt and to beg Elizabeth to save her poverty, both of which things Elizabeth did, as the annals of her life record.