'I understand it all.

Why had I no fear of this ?' That Aurelia had been deceived and inveigled by one professing to be an Arian priest, seemed clear from the watchman's story.

For the originator of the plot, Basil had not far to look.

This was the vengeance of Petronilla.

But whither the two captives would be conveyed, was less easy to conjecture.