After the terrible risk you have run, it will not do for you to be rash.

You must rest." So Lord Arleigh took the good advice given to him to lay still, but on the second day he rose, declaring that he could stand no further confinement.

Even then Lord Mountdean would not hear of his going.
"I am compelled to be despotic with you," he said.

"I know that at Glaburn you have no housekeeper, only men-servants--and they cannot make you comfortable, I am sure.

Stay here for a few days until you are quite well." So Lord Arleigh allowed himself to be persuaded, saying, with a smile, that he had come to Glaburn purposely for solitude.
"It was for the same thing that I came here," said the earl.