He bound himself to do those things which she should tell him.

He bound himself neither in the confessional nor, should it come to that, on the bed of torture or the scaffold to breathe a word of all their counsel.

He prayed that if he did so his soul might pay the price in everlasting torment, and of all these things he took Heaven to be his witness.
"Now," said Emlyn, when she had finished setting out this fearful vow, "will you be a man and swear and thereby avenge the dead and save the innocent from death; or will you who have my secret be a crawling monk and go back to Blossholme Abbey and betray me ?" He thought a moment, rubbing his red head, for the thing frightened him, as well it might.

The scales of the balance of his mind hung evenly, and Emlyn knew not which way they would turn.

She saw, and put out all her woman's strength.