There is a large painting of the above incident now at Woburn, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Bedford; and the old duchess-dowager, in showing this picture a few years before her death to a nobleman, related the particulars of the story.

The favourite duchess stamps about Whitehall, cursing and swearing.

he whispered at last, "O, art thou indeed the Duchess Helen?" "Not so," she murmured, "Helen was duchess whiles she was in Mortain, but I that speak with thee am a lonely maidindeed a very lonely maid who hath sighed for thee, and wept for thee, and for thee hath left her duchy of Mortain, Beltane."