My servant waits for me in your kitchen.

If you hesitate any longer, I call him and in your presence charge him to hand that paper to the messenger who starts this afternoon for Brussels.

Once given it cannot be recalled and the pious Dirk's doom is sealed." Lysbeth's spirit began to break.

"How can I ?" she asked.

"It is true that we are not affianced; perhaps for this very reason which I now learn.