Maybe he's to be a foreigner, from over seas, and that's why his sperit was so long a coming.

A duke, or a prince to the least, I'll warrant, he'll be, that carries off the Rose of Bideford." But in spite of all the good dame's flattery, Rose could not wipe that fierce face away from her eyeballs.

She reached home safely, and crept to bed undiscovered: and when the next morning, as was to be expected, found her laid up with something very like a fever, from excitement, terror, and cold, the phantom grew stronger and stronger before her, and it required all her woman's tact and self-restraint to avoid betraying by her exclamations what had happened on that fantastic night.

After a fortnight's weakness, however, she recovered and went back to Bideford: but ere she arrived there, Amyas was far across the seas on his way to Milford Haven, as shall be told in the ensuing chapters..