Chapter EightThe next day Henry brought the Boleyns, Anne included, on a hunting trip to his lodge in Oxfordshire. With this opportunity to visit her beloved family, Amethyst tossed some garments into a trunk.
A knock at her chamber door brought her chambermaid in.
“Lady Amethyst, you have a visitor in your receiving chamber. Lady Topaz.”
Topaz! Her first reaction was elation on seeing her sister after all these months. Then logic set in, and she began wondering…what does she want this time?
It's not a social visit, she suspected. “I shall be glad to receive her. Do sent her in.”
One of her ladies-in-waiting sat on a footstool doing needlepoint and attendants gathered in the outer chamber chatting. If Amethyst's suspicions about Topaz's visit were correct, they'd best be alone. The ch
