is humiliating position.
She procured the best possible medical advice and attendance for her
husband, and devoted herself to him with the utmost assiduity, and, at
length, she had the satisfaction of seeing that he was beginning to
amend. The improvement commenced in November, about eight or ten
months after he first fell into the state of unconsciousness. When at
length he came to himself, it seemed to him, he said, as if he was
awaking from a long dream.

[Sidenote: Recovery.]

Margaret was overjoyed to see these signs of returning intelligence.
She longed for the time to come when she could show the king her boy.
He had thus far never seen the child.

[Sidenote: The prince shown to him.]

[Sidenote: Marks of returning consciousness.]

We obtain a pretty clear idea of the state of imbecility or
unconsciousness in which he had been lying from the account of what he
did and said at the interview when the little prince was first brought
into his presence. It is as follows:

"On Monday, at noon, the queen came to him and brought my lord
prince with her, and then he asked 'what the prince's name was,'
and the queen told him 'Edward,' and then he held up his hands,
and thanked God thereof.

"And he said he never knew him till that time, nor wist what was
said to him, nor wist where he had been, while he had been sick,
till now; and he asked who were the godfathers, and the queen
told him, and he was well content.

"And she told him the cardinal was dead,[12] and he said he
never knew of it till this time; then he said one of the wisest
lords in this land was dead.

"And my Lord of Winchester and my Lord of St. John of Jerusalem
were with him the morrow after Twelfth day, and he did speak to
them as well as ever he did, and when they came out they wept for
joy. And he saith he is in charity with all the world, and so he
would all the lords were. And now he saith matins of our Lady and
even-song, and heareth his mass devoutly."

[Footnote 12: The Archbishop of Canterbury, the circumstance
of whose death has already been referred to.]

[Sidenote: The king reinstated.]

The very first moment that the king was able to bear it, Margaret
caused him to be conveyed into the House of Lords, there to resume the
exercise of his royal powers by taking his place upon the throne and
performing some act of sovereignty. Th