Puddle it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be all right, because this World was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. When Walter Raleigh met Queen Elizabeth I, Raleigh is reputed to have thrown his coat over
The Pirate Queen to be together (“If I Said I Loved You”). In England, Elizabeth faces a complex dilemma. As Queen, her most important obligation is to take a consort and produce a child who will be her heir (“The Role of the Queen”). Many ambitious men in England imagine themselves rising to power by marrying Elizabeth, especially Sir Richard Bingham, who suggests that the man who delivers Ireland into her hands will be the best candidate. Bingham is confident, for Donal O’Flaherty has decided to betray Grace and his countrymen in exchange for reattaining his power as clan leader. Donal arrives at