'I hold these things only as a trust,' he said. 'I am ready to restore.'
'Why, that is very well,' Katharine said; 'and I have hopes that soon
you will be called to make that restoration to your God.'
Norfolk looked at the square toes of his shoes for a long time.
'Will you have _all_ things to be given back?' he said at last after he
had thought much.
'The King will have all things be as they were before the Queen
Katharine, my namesake of Aragon, was undone,' Katharine answered. 'And
me he will have to take her place so that all things shall be as before
they were.'
The Duke, leaning on his silver and gold staves, shrugged his shoulders
very slowly.
'This will make a very great confusion,' he said.
'Ay,' Katharine answered, 'there will a very many be confounded, and a
great number of hundreds be much annoyed.'