KIDNAPPED We found Lilly at home, eager to help us.

He asked many questions relating to my cousin's life and her friends at court, to all of which I made full answer in so far as I knew, including an account of the king's objectionable attentions.

I suspected that the Doctor would make more use of the knowledge he obtained from me than of that to be received from the stars, but I did not care how he reached his conclusions if he could but tell us how and where to find Frances.
Lilly questioned Betty also, and when he had learned all that she knew, he left us seated in the parlor while he went to his observatory to set a figure.

In the course of ten minutes he returned and gave us the result of his calculations, as follows:-- "I believe I can tell you where Mistress Jennings is, and how she may be found," he said, speaking and acting as one walking in sleep.

"But your failure to tell me the exact hour of her birth lends uncertainty to my calculations.