To-day, when the power was mine again, mine to bring you at last to subjection, behold, I have capitulated at your bidding, and all that I held--including your own self--have I relinquished.

It is perhaps fitting.

Haply I am punished for having wed you before I had wooed you." Again his tone changed, it grew more cold, more matter-of-fact.

"I rode this way a little while ago a hunted man, my only hope to reach home and collect what moneys and valuables I could carry, and make for the coast to find a vessel bound for Holland.

I have been engaged, as you know, in stirring up rebellion to check the iniquities and persecutions that are toward in a land I love.