"La! Richard, Mr.Wilding was never afraid of any man." "Faith!" said Rowland, although his acquaintance with Mr.Wilding was slight and recent.

"It is what I should think.

He does not look like a man familiar with fear." Richard struck something of an attitude, his fair face flushed, his pale eyes glittering.

"He took a blow," said he, and sneered.
"There may have been reasons," Diana suggested darkly, and Sir Rowland's eyes narrowed at the hint.
Again he recalled the words Richard had let fall that afternoon.

Wilding and he were fellow workers in some secret business, and Richard had said that the encounter was treason to that same business, whatever it might be.