Chapter 400

Enter a PAGE.

ELIZABETH. Returned alone? Where are the lords?

PAGE. My Lord High-Treasurer and the Earl of Leicester?

ELIZABETH. Where are they?

PAGE. They are not in London.

ELIZABETH. No! Where are they then?

PAGE. That no one could inform me; Before the dawn, mysteriously, in haste They quitted London.

ELIZABETH (exultingly). I am Queen of England!

[Walking up and down in the greatest agitation.

Go--call me--no, remain, boy! She is dead; Now have I room upon the earth at last. Why do I shake? Whence comes this aguish dread? My fears are covered by the grave; who dares To say I did it? I have tears enough In store to weep her fall. Are you still here? [To the PAGE. Command my secretary, Davison, To come to me this instant. Let the Earl Of Shrewsbury be summoned. Here he comes.

[Exit PAGE.