If I lived I would return to England; and if I returned, woe unto those that had wrecked my life--my body and my soul.

I did live, and I did return.

The Civil War had broken out, and I came to throw my sword into the balance on the King's side: I came, too, to be avenged, but that would wait.
"Meanwhile, the score had grown heavier.

I went home to find the castle in usurping hands--in the hands of my enemies.

My father was dead; he died a few months after I had gone to France; and those murderers had advanced a claim that through my marriage with their cousin, since dead, and through my own death, there being no next of kin, they were the heirs-at-law.