"Or--'my Lady Dunstanwolde.'" "There was a time"-- he said.
"This morning," she said, "I found a letter in a casket in my closet.

I do not know the mad villain who wrote it.

I never knew him." "You did not," he cried, with an oath, and then laughed scornfully.
"The letter lies in ashes on the hearth," she said.

"'Twas burned unopened.

Do not ride so close, Sir John, and do not play the madman and the beast with the wife of my Lord Dunstanwolde." "'The wife!'" he answered.