“He got away?” the queen ignores Richard to ask me, as if this is all that matters. “He got away,” I say. “I should think he will get away all the way to Calais, and you will have a powerful enemy in a fortified castle off your shores,” Richard says bitterly. “And I can tell you that not one town in a hundred can be defended against attack on the south coast. He could sail up the Thames and bombard the Tower, and now he will think himself free to do so. You have broken his alliance for nothing and put us all in danger.” “He was our enemy at any time,” young Somerset remarks. “He was our enemy
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