Philippa Gregory Quote

I’m a lady. It’s none of it mine. Look at you. You’re doing well enough—is your wife a rich woman? He chuckled sheepishly at that. She’s my wife. She does as well as I do. But she doesn’t own anything of her own. It’s the same for me, I said. I do as my father does, as my husband does. I dress as is proper for their wife or their daughter. But I don’t own anything on my own account. In that sense I am as poor as your wife. But you are a Howard and I am a nobody, he observed. I’m a Howard woman. That means I might be one of the greatest in the land or a nobody like you. It all depends. On what? he asked, intrigued. I thought of the sudden darkening of Henry’s face when I displeased him. On my luck.