When the last of them had left, Charlie was sent for.
"Now, then, Charlie, let me hear how all this came about.

I know that all you said about what took place at the window is perfectly true; but, even had you not said so, I should have felt there was something else.

What was it brought you to that window?
Your story was straight-forward enough, but it was certainly singular your happening to be there, and I fancy some of our friends thought that you had gone round to listen, yourself.

One hinted as much; but I said that was absurd, for you were completely in my confidence, and that, whatever peril and danger there might be in the enterprise, you would share them with me." "It is not pleasant that they should have thought so, father, but that is better than that the truth should be known.

This is how it happened;" and he repeated what Ciceley had told him in the garden.
"So the worthy Master John Dormay has set a spy upon me," Sir Marmaduke said, bitterly.