43S REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 45. she left the close hot atmosphere of the Castle, and at the end of July, attended by her cavalier, she spent her days upon the sea or at the Castle of Alloa on the Forth. She had condescended to acquaint Darnley with her in- tention of going, but with no desire that he should ac- company her; and when he appeared uninvited at Alloa he was ordered back to the place from which he came. ' The Queen and her husband/ wrote the Earl of Bed- ford on the 3rd of August, 'agree after the old manner. It cannot for modesty nor for the honour of a Queen be reported what she said of him/ l Sir James Melville, who dreaded the effect in England of the alienation of the friends of Lady Lennox, again remonstrated and attempted to cure the slight with some kind of attention. But Melville was made to feel that he was going beyond his office ; in her violent moods Mary Stuart would not be trifled with, and at length he received a distinct order ' to be no more fami- liar with the Lord Darnley/ 2 Water parties and hunt- ing parties in the Highlands consumed the next few weeks. Though inexorable towards her husband the Queen, as the summer went on, found it necessary, to take Aer Jjr other inta -favour again, and to gain the confidence of^the TJ/nglish JPrntpsj^]rf.s by flffpp.firLg-a^JCP^rlinAss to be _guided Jayjiis advice. Maitland's peace had been made also, though with more difficulty. Bothwell, who was in possession of his estates, refused to part with them and in a stormy scene in the Queen's presence Murray 1 Bedford to Cecil, August 3 : Cotton. MSS. CALIG. B. 10. 2 MELVILLE'S Memoirs.
