- Mary I: You look at me with the eyes of your mother. Who said of my mother, "She will be my death, or I hers." And when my mother lay dead, and they took her heart from her body, they found at the heart's centre a black and terrible core!
- Queen Elizabeth I: Madame, Madame, I beg you - let the past be buried.
- Mary I: No water would wash away the blackness of that thing that had stopped my mother's heart. And it came there by foul practices of witchcraft!
- Queen Elizabeth I: God forbid that should be true!