Then, Betty, listen and judge.

You remember this afternoon, when the marquis took us to see the wonders of this palace, and I went thinking that perhaps I might find some path by which afterwards we could escape ?" "Of course I remember, Margaret.

We do not leave this cage so often that I am likely to forget." "Then you will remember also that high-walled garden in which we walked, where the great tower is, and how the marquis and that hateful priest Father Henriques and I went up the tower to study the prospect from its roof, I thinking that you were following me." "The waiting-women would not let me," said Betty.

"So soon as you had passed in they shut the door and told me to bide where I was till you returned.

I went near to pulling the hair out of the head of one of them over it, since I was afraid for you alone with those two men.