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00:00Stop, I said stop, I'm old enough to be your mother you insufferable
00:05Then teach me my lady
00:08He pins my wrists above my head with one hand
00:11My own rosary beads tangled between his fingers and mine
00:14And tilts my chin up with the other
00:15Forcing me to look at him
00:1725 years old
00:19Jaw carved from marble
00:20Eyes dark with fever and want
00:22Want
00:23For me
00:24A woman of 49 with aching knees and grey at her temples
00:28Blessed Virgin
00:30This is a mortal sin
00:32I'm gonna burn in houses
00:33We burn together
00:34His pace is relentless
00:35I hate you
00:37You're dripping down my thighs
00:39I hate you
00:40I'm not stopping until you scream
00:43I scream three times
00:45I am the Dowager Countess of Everwood
00:47I came to rescue my granddaughter from an abduction
00:50Instead, I ran headlong into the Lord Protector of the Realm
00:54Drugged out of his mind and burning alive with poison
00:57He pinned me down
00:58One catastrophic night later
01:00Me?
01:01The Lord Protector?
01:03In my previous life, my granddaughter Eleanor was violated before her wedding
01:07After the marriage, her husband bled her dry
01:09Funneled her entire dowry into his debts
01:11And made her raise his mistress's baspert as her own
01:14In the end, she was sent to a condent
01:16She spent the rest of her days behind those cold stone walls
01:20Watching the man who destroyed her live a respectable life with another woman
01:24Raising children that should have been hers
01:26No one came to visit
01:27No one came to mourn when she died
01:29Then I wake up
01:31And I'm back
01:32Back to the weeks before Eleanor's wedding
01:35I can't stand by and watch history repeat itself
01:38My legs ache
01:39They always ache
01:40But I grab my walking stack
01:41And in the dead of night, I climb the stone steps up the hill to the abbey
01:46Eleanor!
01:46I'm here, my child!
01:48I won't let that beast lay a finger on you!
01:50I remember it clearly
01:52Last time, Eleanor went to St. Andrew's Abbey for mass
01:55And the Lord Protector's wretched attendant snatched her
01:57Dragged her to his master's chambers
01:59And threw her to him like medicine for a fever
02:02Except, I'm early
02:04The attendant hasn't taken Eleanor yet
02:06I'm the one the Lord Protector catches instead
02:09So hot, help me
02:12God have mercy
02:13I lost my husband at 30
02:16Nearly 20 years without a man's touch
02:18And now a boy barely past 25 has his arms locked around me like a vice
02:22I grip my walking stick
02:24Un-unhand me!
02:26I am the Dowage Countess of Everwood
02:29Let go of me this instant!
02:31I'm old enough to be your grandmother in rank!
02:34Roland of Leonhart
02:35The Lord Protector of the Realm
02:37Forged in military campaigns
02:39Built like a battering ram
02:40A face all hard angles and sharp authority
02:43He commands the kingdom's armies
02:45Controls the Privy Council
02:46Holds more power than any man alive
02:49My words don't make him let go
02:51They make him tip my chin up with his fingers
02:53And seal his mouth over mine
02:57What are you murmuring about?
02:59The scent on you, it's calming
03:01It makes me feel safe
03:02Of course it does
03:03Years of kneeling in chapel
03:05Have soaked frankincense into my very skin
03:07The rest is parchment and iron girl ink from copying scripture
03:09Naturally calming
03:10But that is not the point
03:12The point is, my name day is next month
03:15And I will be 50 years old
03:17I probably smell like dust and old lavender sachets
03:20And he's still kissing me?
03:22Blessed virgin, how long has this man been starved?
03:25Let go of me
03:27My walking stick clatters onto the stone floor
03:30But what chance does a woman pushing 50 have against a young man built like a warhorse?
03:34He scoops me up with one arm and sets me on the oak table
03:40A heartbeat later, my flaying hands are bind
03:43With my own rosary
03:44Be good
03:46Give yourself to me
03:48I'll take responsibility
03:50Holy mother of God
03:51That makes it worse
03:52If he takes responsibility
03:54How do I explain this to Henry
03:56Dead 20 years
03:57To my 32 year old son
03:59To my 16 year old grandson
04:01And 15 year old granddaughter
04:03What am I supposed to say?
04:05Children
04:05Grandmother found you a new grandfather
04:08He's 25
04:11I'd rather you just killed me
04:13My little witch
04:15That can be arranged
04:16He rips the lacing clean off my kirtle
04:19Strips of linen chemise fly everywhere and I
04:21I lose my mind
04:22That's not what I meant!
04:24So
04:25A woman of nearly 50
04:27Ravished by the lord protector of the realm
04:29All night long
04:30Thank God I've taken care of myself
04:32Tazans
04:33Hippocrats
04:34Regular walks up the hill to the abbey
04:36For Massachusetts decades of discipline
04:38Otherwise
04:38He truly would have killed me
04:42Somewhere around midnight
04:43A knock sounds at the door
04:44Your grace
04:45The girl's here
04:46To help you break the fever
04:47What he hears in response is
04:49Not conversation
04:50The sounds coming from inside that room
04:52Are deeply
04:52Profoundly improper
04:54Roland doesn't stop
04:55Doesn't even slow down
04:56Just turns his head and snars
04:58Get out!
04:59Ah
05:00Your grace already has
05:01Company
05:03I'll return the young lady at once
05:07Save
05:08Save me!
05:09Roland clamps a hand over my mouth
05:11Don't scream
05:12I'll have you begging soon enough
05:15He is
05:16Formidable
05:17More formidable than Henry was on our wedding night 34 years ago
05:21And Henry had been a young man then
05:23We married at 16
05:25By 25 Henry was already flagging
05:28By 30 he left me all together
05:30Went to meet his maker
05:31This kind of vigor?
05:33I've only ever read about it in those courtly romances
05:36Lancelot
05:37Tristan
05:37None of them hold a candle
05:39The pleasure is like nothing
05:40How is this even possible?
05:43You're enjoying it too
05:46On you
05:47That night
05:48We are utterly shameless
05:49The rosary snaps
05:51Beads scatter across the linen sheets
05:53Clicking softly
05:54Catching the firelight
05:55That rosary
05:56My most treasured possession
05:58Blessed by Father Benedict's own hand
06:00I used it every single day in prayer
06:02At first
06:03I can't fight him
06:05Later
06:05I don't want to
06:06It is
06:07Magnificent
06:08I never imagined
06:10Not at my age
06:11With one foot already in the grave
06:12That I could feel something like this
06:14But beneath the bliss
06:15A cold thread of worry coils in my chest
06:18This man controls the kingdom
06:20The Everwoods are respectable
06:22Yes
06:22But we are no great house
06:24If Roland decides to destroy us
06:26It takes nothing more than a stroke of his pen
06:29I can't drag my family into this
06:31So when he finally falls asleep
06:33I peel myself free of his arms and slip away
06:35The damage he's done to my body is
06:37Considerable
06:38I can barely stand
06:40My walking stick trembles against the flagstones with every step
06:44The stone stairs down the hillside are a special kind of torture
06:48My legs buckle
06:49My hips scream
06:50The stick skids on the steps three separate times
06:52And each time I nearly pitch forward into empty air
06:56Somehow
06:57Somehow I make it to the bottom
06:59Agnes
06:59My lady's maid
07:00Waits by the carriage
07:02Milady
07:03Lady Eleanor was returned safely
07:05I've been waiting ages
07:06You look dreadful
07:07Did something happen?
07:08Eleanor is safe
07:09I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding
07:11Agnes is still staring at me
07:13I wave her off
07:15Nothing happened
07:16I dozed off in the guest quarters
07:18That's all
07:18Lost track of time
07:19Eleanor's safe
07:20That's what matters
07:22Take me home
07:23In the carriage
07:24I clench my hands together
07:25Close my eyes
07:26And pray
07:27Holy Mary
07:28Have mercy on me
07:30Holy Mary
07:31Have mercy on me
07:33Let no one ever learn of this
07:34Not in this life
07:36Not ever
07:37But my mind won't cooperate
07:39It keeps replaying
07:40His face
07:41The breadth of his shoulders
07:42The relentless way he moved
07:44Henry
07:45I tried to summon Henry's face
07:47My husband
07:48We were betrothed as children
07:50Married at 16
07:51Parted by death at 30
07:53I never remarried
07:54Nearly 20 years
07:56I swore at his coffin
07:57That no man would ever touch me again
07:5920 years
08:00I kept that vow
08:02I thought Henry would be the only man I'd ever have
08:05And now
08:06Practically in my grave
08:0720 years of faithfulness
08:09Shattered in a single night
08:11Henry
08:12God rest your soul
08:13I'm so sorry
08:14Back at the manor
08:15I order the servants
08:16To fill the wooden tub
08:17With hot water
08:18In my bedchamber
08:19No one stays in the room
08:20I want to scrub this night off my skin
08:23If I scrub hard enough
08:24Maybe it never happened
08:26But the marks on my body
08:27Tell a different story
08:28They're everywhere
08:30Vivid proof of just how
08:31Vigorous he was
08:33At my age
08:34Nearly 50 years old
08:36Handled like that
08:37Heat crawls up my neck
08:39My cheeks burn
08:40Margaret Everwood
08:42Shame on you
08:43You're practically ancient
08:44Stop thinking about it
08:46That night
08:47I dream of Henry
08:48Margaret you swore on my coffin
08:51You said there'd be no other man
08:53You said we'd be buried together
08:54In the family crypt
08:56I've been waiting for you in heaven
08:58For 20 years
08:58You won't come down fine
09:00But you found yourself
09:01A 25 year old lover
09:02I'm sorry
09:03I'm sorry Henry
09:05I didn't mean to break my vow
09:07He was too strong
09:08I was forced
09:09I swear
09:10Then Roland appears out of nowhere
09:12Wraps an arm around my waist
09:14And pulls me upright
09:15Before I can bow again
09:16He kicks Henry square in the chest
09:18Henry vanishes
09:20You're a dead man
09:21You're a dead man
09:22The living are none of your concern
09:23Then Roland covers my ears with his palms
09:25Gently
09:26Like I'm something fragile
09:27Margaret
09:27Ignore that old ghost
09:29Everything he said is nonsense
09:31You deserve the finest man in the world
09:33I stare up at him
09:35The finest man in the world
09:37The finest man in the world
09:44Shameless
09:44Absolutely shameless
09:46You love it when I'm shameless
09:47He kisses me
09:49I wake drenched in sweat
09:51Burning up
09:52It's barely spring
09:54There's no reason for this heat
09:57Agonists
09:58Draw a bath
09:59Now
09:59The marks Roland left on my neck
10:01Are impossible to hide
10:02I lock myself in my chambers for days
10:05Waiting for them to fade
10:06The official story
10:07I am well
10:08I caught a chill climbing to the abbey
10:09And came down with a fever
10:10Eleanor is a good girl
10:12Even when I refuse visitors
10:14She comes to the door of my private chapel
10:16Every morning to ask after me
10:18Days pass
10:19Melody
10:20Lady Eleanor came to see you again at first light
10:23Shall I still turn her away?
10:25I glance at the window
10:27Pale light
10:28Quiet grounds
10:29No strangers at the gate
10:31No one has come looking for me
10:33Maybe it's over
10:35Let her in
10:36Tell her I'm much better
10:37Agnes beams
10:38Right away
10:40A moment later
10:41Eleanor bursts through the door
10:43And throws herself around my legs
10:46Grandmother
10:47You're finally seeing me
10:49I thought
10:50I thought you were angry
10:51Because I snuck out that day
10:52And you had to come all the way up the mountain
10:54To find me
10:54I'm so sorry
10:56It was my fault
10:57I nearly got taken by those awful men
10:59If you hadn't come for me
11:02Geoffrey would have been so upset
11:04Geoffrey Montfort
11:05Eleanor's betrothed since childhood
11:07Heir to the Montfort Duchy
11:09A young knight who just earned his spurs before the king last year
11:12The kind of man who rides off to the northern front the morning after his wedding
11:16Leaving Eleanor alone to manage a crumbling estate
11:20While he keeps a mistress across the border
11:22Gets her pregnant
11:24And the worst part?
11:25The entire Montfort household knows
11:27They blame Eleanor for failing to produce an heir
11:30Then force her to raise the bastard under the polite fiction of a ward
11:33Eleanor pours her dowry into the Duchy's debts
11:36She raises her husband's illegitimate child with patience and grace
11:39She waits seven years
11:41When Geoffrey finally returns from the wars
11:44The first thing he does is petition the ecclesiastical court for an annulment
11:48Citing consanguinity
11:49Some threat of distant cousinship
11:51So he can marry his mistress
11:52And in open court
11:54He announces that the child Eleanor raised as her own is his bastard
11:59Always was
12:00By then
12:01Everwoods are nothing
12:02Our influence has withered
12:03Our halls stand empty
12:05And not a single soul bothers to pay a courtesy call
12:07Eleanor has no protector
12:10She can't fight a man riding the crest of military glory
12:12She endures it in silence
12:14Then she collapses
12:16No one visits
12:17No one sends for a physician
12:19She lies alone in an empty room and closes her eyes for the last time
12:23And I, her grandmother, live long enough to watch her buried
12:26Every time I think about Geoffrey kneeling at the altar
12:29Playing the pious knight
12:30When he was calculating how to strip a spare from the very beginning
12:33Every vow he made before God
12:35A lie
12:35My hands shake so badly I want to wrap them around his throat
12:38But the Eleanor standing before me right now doesn't know any of this
12:42She doesn't know her betrothed is a devil wearing a saint's mask
12:46I can't tell her
12:48Not yet
12:50So I take her hands and smile
12:53Ellie, you're still so young
12:55And you're my only granddaughter
12:58I can't bear to let you go just yet
13:01Stay with me a little longer
13:03Two more years, can you do that?
13:05Two more years, just two years
13:08Here's what I know from the last life
13:10The Montforts are drowning
13:12That's why Geoffrey pushes for the wedding
13:14Once Eleanor arrives with her dowry
13:16He's free to ride north and chase glory
13:18If I delay the marriage by two years
13:20The Montforts won't last six months
13:23Their rot will show through for the whole world to see
13:26Let's see them come knocking on our door then
13:28Eleanor blushes and nods
13:30Sweet as ever
13:33I want to stay with you too
13:36If you hadn't come for me that night, I don't know what would have happened
13:39Dear Grandmother, you saved my life
13:41I'll do whatever you say
13:43I'll write to Geoffrey right now and tell him the wedding is postponed
13:50My dear girl
13:51I haven't loved you for nothing
13:53As long as Eleanor never sets foot in that den of wolves
13:56She'll never suffer what she suffered before
13:58And if that nest of vipers goes bankrupt in the meantime
14:02That's not our problem
14:03My son Thomas and his wife Catherine are thrilled when they hear the news
14:07They come to see me together that evening
14:11Mother, did you hear something?
14:14Everyone's whispering that the Montforts are practically ruined
14:16The old Duke's war reputation is the only thing keeping up appearances
14:21Their estate income can't even cover household expenses
14:25Apparently the servants haven't received their wages or livery allowances in months
14:29And the pantry's nearly bare
14:32Eleanor is my only daughter
14:33I won't watch her suffer
14:37This is perfect timing, Mother
14:38Give it a couple of years
14:40Once Eleanor's gotten over her stubbornness
14:41We'll find her a family that actually deserves her
14:43She can stay right here by your side
14:45Wouldn't that be better?
14:47Seeing them both on my side warms my old bones more than any fire
14:52Good
14:53I'm glad we're all in agreement
14:55Henry and I only had Thomas
14:57I adored him from the day he drew breath
14:59When his father died, Thomas was twelve
15:01I raised him alone
15:03His wife Catherine is a distant relation of mine
15:06A merchant's daughter, yes
15:07But from a wealthy house in the previous life
15:10Catherine and I nearly bankrupted ourselves for Eleanor
15:12My dower
15:13Catherine's remaining dowry funds
15:15We poured everything we had into keeping that girl afloat in the Montfort household
15:18That's the real reason the Everwoods fell so fast
15:21This time, we will not let those leeches bleed us dry
15:23I keep Eleanor close
15:25Every morning, she comes to my private chapel to copy the book of hours with me and join in lots
15:30I also order the servants to intercept every piece of correspondence between Eleanor and Jeffrey
15:35Every letter
15:36No exceptions
15:38My Eleanor is a proper nobleman's daughter
15:41Raised with impeccable manners
15:42She would never sneak around behind my back to meet a man
15:46And without anyone to carry his honeyed words for him
15:49How exactly does Jeffrey plan to manipulate my granddaughter?
15:52What I don't expect is for Jeffrey to show up in person
15:55Not even a fortnight later
15:59Milade
16:01Sir Jeffrey of Montfield is at the gate
16:04He says he's here to call on you and Lady Eleanor
16:07Thomas has taken Catherine to visit her family
16:10It's just Eleanor and me at the manor
16:12My fingers go still on the rosary
16:14Turn him away
16:17He's not alone, Milady
16:19The Lord Protector is with him
16:22Roland of Leonhart
16:23Every drop of blood drains from my face
16:26The rosary beads rattle between my trembling fingers
16:30He... he... why is he here?
16:33That night, in my panic, I blurted out who I was
16:36My name, my title
16:37Has he come to settle the score?
16:39Milade, the Lord Protector is the late king's youngest brother and his majesty's own uncle
16:43The entire kingdom answers to him
16:45And they say he's merciless with those who cross him
16:47Not a man anyone can afford to offend
16:49As if I don't already know
16:50I got a very thorough demonstration of his intensity that night
16:54I force myself to breathe
16:56Think, Margaret
16:57He was poisoned that night
16:59Delirious
17:00Out of his mind
17:01He might not remember an old woman's face
17:04Prepare hippoprash
17:06Show the Lord Protector and Sir Geoffrey to the great hall
17:09In the great hall, I have the servant's position and embroidered screen behind the dais
17:13I sit behind it, rosary in hand, and nod for Agnes to pour the wine
17:18I have been widowed many years and do not receive visitors in person
17:22I beg your grace's forgiveness
17:24My late husband Henry was the Earl of Everwood
17:26A man who fought beside the late king and earned his honors on the battlefield
17:30No one can expect a dowager countess past 50
17:32Still recovering from illness
17:34To drag herself out in curtsy before a man young enough to be her son
17:39No need to apologize
17:41Sir Geoffrey and I arrived uninvited
17:46I frown behind the screen
17:48Forgive my bluntness, your grace
17:51To what do we owe this visit?
17:53Geoffrey opens his mouth
17:55But before a word comes out
17:56Eleanor's voice rings from the doorway
18:00Geoffrey
18:01What are you doing here?
18:05Eleanor
18:06Thank God you're alright
18:07I've written to you every day
18:09You never replied
18:10I was worried something had happened
18:12Letters
18:13What letters?
18:15Grandmother hasn't been well
18:16She asked me to stay by her side
18:18The servants must have forgotten to deliver them
18:20I'll look into it
18:21Then her gaze drifts to the man seated beside Geoffrey
18:24And this gentleman is?
18:28Eleanor, mind your manners
18:30This is his grace
18:31The Lord protect her
18:33Your grace
18:34Please forgive my rudeness
18:35Roland says nothing
18:37A slight nod
18:38Nothing more
18:38His gaze doesn't linger on her
18:40But my hands are clenched so tight around the rosary
18:42That the beads bite into my palms
18:43In the last life
18:44It was Roland who ruined Eleanor
18:46Eleanor's eyes
18:47She looks like me
18:48Please, God
18:49Please don't let him see the resemblance
18:50My mind is spiraling when Roland's voice cuts through
18:53Where was this young lady?
18:55Did she by any chance visit
18:56Airpist St. Andrew's Abbey outside the city?
18:59That single question squeezes my chest like a fist
19:03Eleanor is innocent
19:04But she's not stupid
19:05She knows what happened that night
19:07The ambush
19:08The men who knocked her unconscious
19:10How close she came to being dragged away
19:12No, your grace
19:13Two weeks ago I was here at home
19:15Keeping grandmother company
19:18I didn't go anywhere
19:20That's right
19:21Eleanor is a devoted girl
19:23She knows this old woman gets lonely
19:25So she stays close
19:27Now, Sir Geoffrey
19:28While you're here
19:29There's a matter I'd like to discuss
19:31Eleanor is not in good health
19:33I've had a physician examine her
19:35And he says she needs at least
19:36Two or three more years of rest
19:37Before she should even think about marriage
19:39The wedding will be postponed
19:41No!
19:42Eleanor blinks
19:43She's never heard him use that tone
19:45Not once
19:46He's always played the gentle knight in her presence
19:49Soft voice
19:49Kind eyes
19:50Courtly bows
19:51Geoffrey
19:52Why not?
19:53Grandmother is looking out for us
19:55Why would you speak to her like that?
19:57Forgive me, Eleanor
19:59I love you so much
20:00I just want to stand with you at the altar
20:02As soon as possible
20:03Two or three more years
20:05I don't know if I can bear the weight
20:08Eleanor's health comes before everything
20:10If Sir Geoffrey finds the weight unaborable
20:13Perhaps it would be best to dissolve the betrothal altogether
20:15And seek a more suitable match
20:17My lady, you misunderstand
20:19That's not what I meant at all
20:20It's just
20:21It's
20:39It's just
21:08Grandmother
21:09Nothing to say to him that isn't laced with venom
21:11Sir Geoffrey, I believe I've made myself clear
21:14You know the state of the Montfield house better than anyone
21:17I shouldn't need to spell it out
21:19Eleanor is the most precious thing the Everwood family has
21:23Her parents and I will not send her somewhere
21:25She'll suffer
21:26If you truly love her
21:28I'll give you three years
21:29Restore the Montfield name
21:32Prove you can provide for her
21:33Fail
21:34And this betrothal is finished
21:36Do you have the nerve to take that wager?
21:39I almost laugh out loud
21:40Three years?
21:42He won't last one
21:43Without Everwood money propping them up
21:45The entire Montford estate will be begging for scraps within months
21:48The blow lands
21:50Geoffrey sways on his feet like I've struck him across the face
21:57My lady, is that really what you think of me?
22:01A man of no worth?
22:03Yes
22:04I figured that out a lifetime ago
22:06You're nothing but a leech that latched onto my family and sucked us dry
22:09And those so-called battlefield glories of yours?
22:12Compared to my grandsons
22:14They're not worth the breath it takes to speak of them
22:18Eleanor, can't you see?
22:20Your grandmother is deliberately sabotaging us
22:22She doesn't want you to marry me
22:25Eleanor's voice shakes
22:26Angry tears spill over
22:29She's thinking about our future
22:30She's pushing you to be better
22:32Why can't you just...
22:33Why won't you listen?
22:34So you look down on us too
22:36Because the Montfields have fallen on hard times
22:39This betrothal was sealed by your grandfather and mine while they still lived
22:43And now the Everwoods break their word like it means nothing?
22:46Is this the honor of your house?
22:48I'm trembling with rage behind the screen
22:50If he hadn't schemed against us first
22:52The Everwoods would never have needed to break anything
22:55Then, from the far side of the hall
22:57Where Roland has been leaning back in his chair
22:59Drinking hippocrats as if watching a mildly entertaining tournament
23:03Enough
23:05Lady Everfield is the widow of a war hero
23:07She holds the late king's personal writ of protection
23:10She is your grandfather's peer
23:12And you dare speak to her this way
23:15I'd like to know how old Duke Montford raised his eads
23:18If he couldn't manage the job, I'm happy to finish it for him
23:21The Everwoods, I'll admit, have no one fearsome in this generation
23:25My Thomas, God love him, is an honest man with a minor court appointment and none of his father's fire
23:30William, Eleanor's brother, holds no title yet, no office
23:34Offend us, and the consequences are manageable
23:37But Roland, the late king's youngest brother
23:41Uncle to the boy on the throne
23:42The man whose frown makes the entire king's council hold its breath
23:46That's a different calculation entirely
23:49Your grace, forgive me
23:51I spoke in haste
23:52I forgot myself
23:54I accept Lady Everwood's terms
23:56I'll ride to the Northern Marges
23:59In three years, I'll prove my worth on the battlefield
24:01And return to seek Lady Eleanor's hand
24:03Before you leave, report to my marshal
24:07Twenty straptures
24:08The heir leaves the room
24:09Everyone knows what that means for a knight
24:12Twenty lashes is not pain
24:14Twenty lashes is humiliation
24:16Then Roland's gaze lifts
24:18And even through the embroidered screen
24:20I feel it land directly on my face
24:21Does that satisfy you, my lady?
24:24Satisfying me?
24:25I could weep with joy
24:27If he could simply whip the cur to death
24:29I'd save myself years of trouble
24:31Your grace, I defer entirely to your judgment
24:34The screen still stands between us
24:36Roland can't see my face clearly
24:38That's my only comfort
24:40I plead fatigue and rise to leave
24:42Your grace, I am old
24:44And only recently recovered from illness
24:46I cannot sit much longer
24:47I'll retire to my chambers
24:49Eleanor, see our guests out
24:51Yes, Grandmother
24:52But Roland turns to Jeffrey first
24:55You, leave
24:56Jeffrey's jaw tightens
24:58He wants to argue
24:59Anyone can see it
25:00But he doesn't dare defy the Lord Protector to his face
25:02He forces a stiff bow
25:05I take my leave
25:06And storms out
25:07Eleanor watches him go
25:09Then turns back to Roland with wide
25:11Your grace, it's getting late
25:13Aren't you heading back as well?
25:15Roland's entire demeanor shifts
25:16Where Jeffrey received cold steel
25:18Eleanor gets warmth
25:20He even winks at her
25:21My lady, it is getting late
25:23I'm rather tired
25:25I was hoping to stay the night at Everwood Manor
25:28If you'd be willing to take me in
25:29My blood goes cold
25:31In the last life, Roland was the one who violated Eleanor
25:34This time it was me instead
25:35But Eleanor is sweet
25:37Lovely
25:37Young
25:38What's to stop him from developing ideas?
25:41Your grace, there are only two women in this house
25:43And no male head of household present
25:44An unmarried man staying the night would be improper
25:47And if I insist
25:48What can I say to that?
25:50I'm a powerless widow
25:52Am I supposed to throw the Lord Protector of the Realm out onto the road?
25:55Your grace, please don't be offended
25:57Grandmother has lived quietly for many years
26:00She's simply not accustomed to visitors
26:02There's an old Soli on the west side of the manor
26:04It was my grandfather's study when he was alive
26:07Where he read and handled estate business
26:09If your grace wouldn't mind
26:10You're welcome to stay there for the night
26:13Eleanor
26:14Clever girl
26:15Color floods Eleanor's cheeks
26:16She ducks her head
26:18Your grace flatters me
26:19My stomach drops
26:21Is he flirting with my granddaughter?
26:23I'm not worried about Jeffrey anymore
26:25After today, Eleanor has seen through his mask
26:27She won't cling to that sinking ship
26:30But if she turns around and falls for the Lord Protector
26:33I can't exactly tell her
26:34The man you're blushing at has already bedded your grandmother
26:37God would rain fire and brimstone on this house
26:40No, absolutely not
26:42I just pulled Eleanor out of one wolf's jaws
26:45I will not push her into another's arms
26:47Eleanor
26:48Come here
26:49Come stand beside me
26:51Agnes, escort his grace to the west solar
26:54Coming, Grandmother
26:55Eleanor turns and hurries toward me
26:58And catches her foot on something
27:00She stumbles, crashes into the screen
27:02And knocks it several inches to the side
27:05For one horrible, frozen moment
27:07There is nothing between Roland and me but open air
27:10Our eyes lock
27:11My heart slams against my ribs
27:13His gaze is sharp
27:15Searching
27:16It pins me in place
27:17I don't breathe
27:19I can't breathe
27:21Don't recognize me
27:22Don't recognize me
27:23Roland's brow creases
27:25And then he says the one thing that makes me want the floor to open up and swallow me whole
27:29My lady
27:30Have we met before?
27:33Your grace
27:34A man as busy as yourself can hardly be expected to remember every face
27:37But now that you mention it
27:39Your grace, don't you recall?
27:41Years ago
27:42When I visited the palace to pay my respects to Queen Mother Isabel
27:45I held you in my arms
27:47You were still a nursing babe
27:49The moment I picked you up
27:50You wet yourself all over my gown
27:52My, how the years fly
27:54Look at you now
27:55All grown up
27:58That's right, boy
28:00You want to match wits with this old woman?
28:02You're twenty years too green
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