She has found safe refuge, I trust, at Trevlyn Chase.
Thou didst go there, my brother, after parting from me ?" "Ay, verily I did, and stayed there a matter of some two weeks, ever hoping to see thy face again, and to hear how it fared with thee.

But thou camest not." "I could not," answered the girl, in the same low tone; "I was in my bed, unable to move hand or foot, unable to know night from day.
Cuthbert, the night I went forth to thee in the chantry our father missed me from the house.

He thought I had gone to meet Philip in the wood at night.

He reviled me cruelly, and I feared to tell him it was thou I had gone to see.

Then, I know not how, but I fear he struck me.