"I think your mother a wise woman, then," she has to laugh out as she touches his arm briefly in an easily shared affection before she slowly shakes her head, smile more subdued with a headier tone.

"Lady Anne or Mistress Boleyn would be the most proper, but I have grown accustom to the ways of other times and kingdoms. I am no lady of great standing in my own right, so I have no quarrel with what you may choose to call me; Though I pray, whatever it is, to be offered fondly."