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“Catherine!” The suddenness of the earl of Surrey’s voice startled the young woman, and she whirled to face her elder cousin. “Have you any idea why my father would make such a request? Why, in God’s name, should His Grace want Jaime sent to court on such short notice? After all, he and Edward are planning to return soon enough to Kenninghall. Why now, Catherine? And why in such haste?”
Catherine shook her head as she pondered her response, for she too wished to know the answer. She had been quite careful in her private talk with the king. She had needed to make certain that Edward and the duke would never guess the identity of the Edward’s accuser. But now, hearing this news of Jaime’s summons, Catherine wondered if the two had somehow found her out. For a long moment she stared at t
