She spoke them in the tone of reason to her invalid friend Rebecca Wythan, who saw with her, felt with her, yearned to retain her till breath was gone.

Owain Wythan had his doubts of the tyrant guilty of maltreating this woman of women.

'But when you do leave Wales,' he said, 'you shall be guarded up to your haven.' Carinthia was not awake to his meaning then.

She sent a short letter of reply, imitating the style of her lord; very baldly stating, that she was unable to leave Wales because of her friend's illness and her part as nurse.

Regrets were unmentioned.
Meanwhile Rebecca Wythan was passing to death.