Do men know love ?" she asked, not with any bitterness--only as a question of fact.

What had Tristram been about?
Lord Elterton thought.

Here he had been married to this divine creature for a whole week, and she was plainly asking the question from her heart.

And Tristram was no fool in a general way, he knew.

There was some mystery here, but whatever it was there was the more chance for him! So he went on very tactfully, trying insidiously to soothe her, so that at last when they had arrived Zara had enjoyed her walk.
Montfitchet Tower was all that remained of the old castle destroyed by Cromwell's Ironsides.