To Lie With Lions Chapter 13

October 1471

The “same night” (Vintage p. 159; Kindle loc. 3448) as the events of TLWL 11 and TLWL 12, the Burgundian ship arrives.
“The next morning ” (Vintage p. 159; Kindle loc. 3449), Adorne meets with King and Council, and then with Anselm Sersanders. Gelis moves to the High Street house this day.<ref>Near the end of TLWL 12, Gelis said she would go there “Tomorrow” (Vintage p. 154; Kindle loc. 3359).</ref>
“[L]ess than a week” later (Vintage p. 162; Kindle loc. 3510), Gelis is notified that Princess Mary will move in.
Several days later, Margriet comes to the Canongate house.<ref>“By [this] time … the lady Mary was installed in the [High Street] house” (Vintage p. 164; Kindle loc. 3550). Also note that this meeting prompts Nicholas in TLWL 14 to visit the High Street house, after having disappeared from public when Princess Mary arrived (Vintage pp. 159, 161; Kindle loc. 3453, 3487) and having “left [Gelis’s] household alone for two weeks” (Vintage p. 169; Kindle loc. 3649).</ref>

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“Adorne said, ‘Nicholas is the Bank. That is its greatest strength and its greatest impediment. Nicholas bestowing his undivided attention upon any project is a sight worthy of awe: it leads naturally to success. It does not lead to stability; to consistent leadership; to the broadest vision which will carry a company or a family safely into the future. Nicholas is not concerned with the future – for his country, his town or himself.’ ¶ ‘But surely!’ Sersanders said. ‘He has plotted and planned all his life! … ¶ ‘You would think so,’ said Adorne. It had come to him recently, the truth about Nicholas, or what he thought was the truth. He said, ‘And you are right, when you speak of his mind. But what the core of Nicholas lives by is not the present, nor what is to come. It is the past.’ ” (Vintage pp. 160-61; Kindle loc. 3479-86)
Margriet observes changes in Nicholas: “He was thirty, and made to seem taller by some change in the shape of his muscles, and the way he now stood. His eyes held the attention now the way Anselm’s did, by their authority, and not just because they were wide-set and grey. She thought he had probably modelled himself on Anselm ….” (Vintage pp. 165; Kindle loc. 3584-86)