The Concubine Part II

Anne continues to keep her distance from the king, and stays at Hever. Lady Boleyn is relieved that her step child does not seem interested in becoming his mistress. Emma stays at Hever, and meets a shopkeepers wife, who lives in the local village. The woman and her husband have some education and they take an interest, discreetly in the new Protestant religion. Emma has met reformers before, and she finds herself getting interested too and she is pleased to make new friends as she has a lonely life. She meets the shopkeeper and his wife and their circle and they read the Bible. She disapproves of the worldly ways of the Catholic bishops and cardinals, and wants a simpler less superstitious relilion. Anne too is a little interested in the new ideas. Eventually, Anne does meet the king and he pays court to her. She refuses to become his mistress, but he begins to win her over by suggesting that his marriage to Katherine of Aragon is not valid and that he wants to get it annulled and then he would be free to marry her. M/F