He's too big a coward." Lady Barbara shivered, drew her gown closer, and sank to the bed again, gazing straight before her.

"Yes, that is what will happen, Martha--he would kill him.

I see it all now.

That is what would have happened to our gardener who ruined the gatekeeper's daughter, if the man had not left England.

She was only a girl--hardly grown; yes, it all comes back to me.