"I will see," said I, "this Barnard; I will lie in wait for him; I will demand and obtain, though it be by force, the secret which evidently subsists between him and this exiled family." Full of this idea, I drew my cloak round me, and repaired on foot to the neighbourhood of the Spaniard's cottage.

There was no place near it very commodious for accommodation both of vigil and concealment.

However, I made a little hill, in a field opposite the house, my warder's station, and, lying at full length on the ground, wrapt in my cloak, I trusted to escape notice.

The day passed: no visitor appeared.

The next morning I went from my own rooms, through the subterranean passage into the castle cave, as the excavation I have before described was generally termed.
On the shore I saw Gerald by one of the small fishing-boats usually kept there.