Only in this second case he found one more willing to listen and easier to deceive.
On the following morning, as it chanced, Eve had no relish for the food that was brought to her, for confinement in that narrow place had robbed her of her appetite.

Also she had suffered much from grievous fear and doubt, for whatever she might say to Acour, how could she be sure that his story was not true?
How could she be sure that her lover did not, in fact, now lie dead at the headsman's hands?
Such things often happened when kings were wroth and would not listen.

Or perhaps Acour himself had found and murdered him, or hired others to do the deed.

She did not know, and, imprisoned here without a friend, what means had she of coming at the truth?
Oh! if only she could escape! If only she could speak with Sir Andrew for one brief minute, she, poor fool, who had walked into this trap of her own will.
She sent away the food and bade the woman Mell bring her milk, for that would be easy to swallow and give her sustenance.

After some hours it came, Mell explaining that she had been obliged to send for it to the farmsteading, as none drank milk in the manor-house.