With that secret in her possession, she could bring pressure to bear on Caswall which would make it no easy matter for him to evade her.
The great difficulty was how to get near him.

He was shut up within his Castle, and guarded by a defence of convention which she could not pass without danger of ill repute to herself.

Over this question she thought and thought for days and nights.

At last she decided that the only way would be to go to him openly at Castra Regis.

Her rank and position would make such a thing possible, if carefully done.