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That evening the Queen's dwarf found the pendant of Her Majesty's earring in the corridor leading to the chapel and Anne received it with secret surprise and relief; she had thought at first that she had lost it in the ilex avenue, but now she concluded it had fallen where Juan had found it, and recognising it had contrived to drop it in the corridor.
Aña de Mendoza made no comment and put in no word when the Queen's wrath swept stormily over the Austrian ladies who had left her in the quidnunc, but when the King and Antonio Perez returned the next day to the Escorial she was closeted with each, long and secretly.