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S1 E15

Wolf Hall · Season 1, Episode 15

A scene from “Unfinished Business”

Mary Boleyn: If you're waiting for her, I should warn you. She's in a temper. Nothing happens quickly enough for Anne. You'd think she'd be happy. You know when the King first turned his attention to her, he thought, knowing how things are done in France, that she might accept a certain position at court? But that wasn't enough for Anne. You know what she said to me? She said, "This isn't France, and I'm not a fool like you, Mary." Because she... Because she knows I was Henry's mistress and she sees how I am left. And she takes a lesson from it. She's vowed that she'll marry him. And what Anne wants she'll have.

Thomas Cromwell: And you?

Mary Boleyn: Me? I am to be swept out after supper like the old rushes. My father says I'm a mouth to feed and my uncle Norfolk says I'm a whore. I need a husband. To stop them calling me names.

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