Yet for Lionel's sake he must bear it with what fortitude he could.

Lionel must not be sacrificed to his egoism for a deed that in Lionel he could not account other than justified.

He were base indeed did he so much as contemplate such a way of escape as that.
But if he did not contemplate it, Lionel did, and went in terror during those days, a terror that kept him from sleep and so fostered the fever in him that on the second day after that grim affair he had the look of a ghost, hollow-eyed and gaunt.

Sir Oliver remonstrated with him and in such terms as to put heart into him anew.

Moreover, there was other news that day to allay his terrors: the Justices, at Truro had been informed of the event and the accusation that was made; but they had refused point-blank to take action in the matter.