There she sat and wept, while he went down and dined and drank alone.

But the old housekeeper brought her up a morsel of food and a glass of wine, saying that her master desired that she would take it.
"I will not leave you, my lady, till you have done so," said Hannah.

"To fast so long must be bad always." Then she eat the food, and drank a drop of wine, and allowed the old woman to take her away to the bed that had been prepared for her.

Of her husband she saw no more for four days.

On the next morning a note was brought to her, in which Sir Hugh told her that he had returned to London.