text:  Could any man with a spark of chivalrous feeling within him have permitted himself to manifest such tokens of disgust in the presence of a woman who was to all intents and purposes his wife and whom he then for the first time beheld? Some there were wearing before him the princely plume of Wales who would rather have forfeited that honour than offered insult to a female and a stranger--but the spirit of the Henrys and the Edwards was not there