When the Heavens Fall by Gilbert Morris

Author:Gilbert Morris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Howard Books
Published: 2010-12-14T05:00:00+00:00

Mary clung to Philip. She did not know if she pleased Philip in bed or not. He was a young man with the lust of a young man, and she was an older woman, too old to begin learning the secrets of a marital bed. But for the first time in her life she was in love

The two of them walked along a garden path despite the inclement weather. Philip talked platitudes and of things that were taking place in the court and back in his native Spain, but when they returned to the house, she turned to him as they stood before the fire to gain some warmth. “We’re making headway, Husband. We’re destroying Protestantism.”

“The people don’t like it—your people, I mean.”

“They don’t understand. I’ve come to understand my father and the decisions he made. Heretics must be executed. They must face the fact that they are not serving God unless they are Catholic.”

“Have you considered this?” Philip asked. “When the people see someone go to his death praising God as he is consumed, maybe they think he has something of God already?”

“That’s impossible. They are heretics, Philip, and the only way that we’re going to see England return to the old ways, the older religion, is to give them no quarter. We must make them see it’s death to do anything else.”

“What are your plans?”

“My council and I are making a list of prominent churchmen who have lost their way. They’ll have a chance to repent, to give up this new religion and come back to the true faith. If not, they’ll go to the stake.”

This was what Philip and his father wanted, but he had seen the English people and the emperor had not. “The people are stubborn, my queen. Once you start something, it may not be as easy to bring it to a halt.”

“God has put me on the throne to turn England back to the true faith, and that is what I will do.” She hesitated, then said, “I have something else I must tell you.”

“Something of the court?”

“No. Of us. For you and me, but for the court too.”

“I don’t understand you, Mary.”

“I think I am with child.”

Philip turned to her, eagerness in his movement and in his eyes. “Are you certain?”

“I have good cause to believe it.”

“When will it be?”

“I can’t be certain. But when we have a child, that will change everything.”

“Yes.” Her handsome husband smiled. “Yes, it will change things indeed. I’m happy for you.”

“I’m happy for both of us.”

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