The walls are beginning to close in on Cromwell.
Warning: contains spoilers forThe Mirror and the Lightepisode three.
Henrys love is a dangerous thing.
The protection it brings is equalled only by the threat that comes with its removal.
Jane Seymour was beginning to learn it before pregnancy granted her this reprieve.
And now Cromwell feels it in a queasily tense episode that shows the walls closing in on him.
Indeed, Cromwellisone of the kings problems.
Noble Catholic familiesthe Polesand the Courtneys are gunning for the Lord Chancellor and his Reformation.
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Like Henrys, Cromwells sleep was also being troubled by his conscience.
No wonder she was snippy when she learned shed be Thomas daughter and not his wife.
Before they died along with his wife of the sweating sickness, the Lord Chancellor did once have daughters.
The rich used the poor to do their violent bidding, manipulating the people through lies and fear.
If Cromwell couldnt find an answer, sadly, there cant be much hope for the rest of us.
Cromwells quick tongue and quicker mind are enviable, even if his perilous position at court is increasingly not.
Less so were the nauseating moments when circumstances swirled beyond Cromwells control and the king turned on him.
His mercurial temper was underlined with the reappearance of Patch/Sexton the fool.
Its hard to say which is scarier, Henry smiling at you or screaming at you.
Neither one is safe.
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Lightcontinues on Sunday December 1.
