CHAPTER XVII

CONSTRAINT Lady Essex, taking what comfort she could from Mrs. Turner's assurances that her shame and humiliation would remain buried from the eyes of the world, returned on the morrow to Northampton House. By her reappearance there she allayed in part the consternation of her parents, who with her husband had come to the Lord Privy Seal in search of her. The King had yesterday removed himself to Theobald's, and since Rochester had been among those who accompanied him, it was secretly feared by Lord and Lady Suffol…