Darnley might still survive as long as Morton stayed in exile and could not get his hands on the man who had so brazenly double-crossed him. His best hope was Mary’s baby. It was due in June, and once he was the father of the heir to the throne, he might think about staging a comeback. If, however, the leader of the Douglases ever returned to Scotland, Darnley’s life would be in peril. By assassinating Rizzio, he had let the genie out of the bottle. Nothing he could do would ever make it possible to put it back again.
