Meanwhile Angele had gone through many phases of alternate hope and despair.

She knew that Montgomery the Camisard was dead, and a rumour, carried by refugees, reached her that De la Foret had been with him to the end.

To this was presently added the word that De la Foret had been beheaded.

But one day she learned that the Comtesse de Montgomery was sheltered by the Governor, Sir Hugh Pawlett, her kinsman, at Mont Orgueil Castle.

Thither she went in fear from her refuge at Rozel, and was admitted to the Comtesse.