She herself knew, and blindly satisfied herself with the knowledge, that she alone now came close into the life of "Beau" Law, the convict; "Jessamy" Law, the student, the financier, the thinker; John Law, her lord and master.

Herein she found the sole compensation possible in her savage nature.

She had found the master whom she sought! Cynically mirthful or irreverently indifferent, yet never did her master's strength forsake him, never did his heart lose its undauntedness.

And when he bade Mary Connynge do this or that she obeyed him; when he bade her arise she arose; at his word she came or departed.
A dozen nights in the month she was absent from the house of Knollys.

A dozen nights Will Law was cozened into frenzy, alternating between a heaven of delight and a hell of despair, and ignorant of her twofold duplicity.