@samuelpepys@mastodon.social Golly, Sam, what a plot. This guy Tom Wilson comes into your (borrowed) bedroom at night, he does all sorts of bizarre things. You take it with admirable calm. He comes back the next day to apologise again. You reassure him that all is well, and then you tell him that he should be glad that ... you aren't a pregnant woman who would have had a miscarriage when accosted this way. What? Perhaps Sam and Elisabeth had a miscarriage, unreported in the diary? Or is this about Queen Catherine, married to Charles since May last year, thus far childless. Charles II currently has lost interest in his mistress Barbara Palmer (Lady Castlemaine), who has borne one son to him and is pregnant again. Now the queen is back in favour. This is big news, Pepys had reflected on it just this Friday. Is Sam worried about the loss of a royal successor? (He could not know that Catherine was to have multiple miscarriages and would remain childless.) #Pepys