I am quite sure there is, [ and her eyes look him over rather obviously. ] perhaps when I find it, I shall tell you.

[ she nods, and is a little stiff, almost as if to shrug about it. ] As am I. It is the plight of Kings, we are only ever to fill dead men's shoes, I'm afraid. So I am glad for this chance, though perhaps less glad of the rest of it.

[ perhaps, but Elizabeth is wary of it, if only because she wonders if her mother would ever come. But what then, would she say to her? ]