All her life long, she was thinking, people had conferred benefits on her, benefits she did not covet. Henry by making her first into a Vicereine, and then into a political hostess, and now FitzGeorge by heaping her quiet life with gold and treasures.
No one ever really asks her. Even when Henry proposed marriage, he didn't wait for her to answer. He assumed a positive response by the look on her face.
