They have captured me once.

I have escaped them.

But they will have me again if I make me not away with all speed." Dalaber dragged him almost roughly within the room, and closed the door with a bang, for he had seen on the staircase the eager face of one of the college servants; and the young man, immediately upon hearing Garret's words, had slipped downstairs--Dalaber guessed only too well upon what errand.
"Alas! why have you spoken such words ?" he cried, almost fiercely.
"Know you not that by so doing in the hearing of that young man, and by such uncircumspect fashion of coming hither, you have disclosed yourself and utterly undone me ?" Garret looked fearfully over his shoulder.

He seemed completely unnerved and unstrung.
"Was the young man following?
Alas! I knew it not.

I came hither to seek Robert Ferrar, but he was out; and knowing that you had planned to move hither, and thinking it likely you might already have done so, I asked the servant where you were to be found, and he pointed out the place, and said he knew that you were within; but I knew not he had followed me.