Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies. Hilary Mantel

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while he works out how to give the cardinal a pay-off that will keep him quiet. But then?’

      He hesitates. ‘The king likes me.’

      ‘The king is an inconstant lover.’

      ‘Not to Anne.’

      ‘That is where I must warn you. Oh, not because of Guiett … not because of any gossip, any light thing said … but because it must all end soon … she will give way, she is just a woman … think how foolish a man would have been if he had linked his fortunes to those of the Lady’s sister, who came before her.’

      ‘Yes, just think.’

      He looks around the room. That’s where the Lord Chancellor sat. On his left, the hungry merchants. On his right, the new ambassador. There, Humphrey Monmouth the heretic. There, Antonio Bonvisi. Here, Thomas Cromwell. And there are ghostly places set, for the Duke of Suffolk large and bland, for Norfolk jangling his holy medals and shouting ‘By the Mass!’ There is a place set for the king, and for the doughty little queen, famished in this penitential season, her belly quaking inside the stout armour of her robes. There is a place set for Lady Anne, glancing around with her restless black eyes, eating nothing, missing nothing, tugging at the pearls around her little neck. There is a place for William Tyndale, and one for the Pope; Clement looks at the candied quinces, too coarsely cut, and his Medici lip curls. And there sits Brother Martin Luther, greasy and fat: glowering at them all, and spitting out his fishbones.

      A servant comes in. ‘Two young gentlemen are outside, master, asking for you by name.’

      He looks up. ‘Yes?’

      ‘Master Richard Cromwell and Master Rafe. With servants from your household, waiting to take you home.’

      He understands that the whole purpose of the evening has been to warn him: to warn him off. He will remember it, the fatal placement: if it proves fatal. That soft hiss and whisper, of stone destroying itself; that distant sound of walls sliding, of plaster crumbling, of rubble crashing on to fragile human skulls? That is the sound of the roof of Christendom, falling on the people below.

      Bonvisi says, ‘You have a private army, Tommaso. I suppose you have to watch your back.’

      ‘You know I do.’ His glance sweeps the room: one last look. ‘Good night. It was a good supper. I liked the eels. Will you send your cook to see mine? I have a new sauce to brighten the season. One needs mace and ginger, some dried mint leaves chopped –’

      His friend says, ‘I beg of you. I implore you to be careful.’

      ‘– a little, but a very little garlic –’

      ‘Wherever you dine next, pray do not –’

      ‘– and of breadcrumbs, a scant handful …’

      ‘– sit down with the Boleyns.’

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