"Will that satisfy them?"
"I know not. It must."
"I could tell thee all that thou wilt learn at Dorchester."
"Do so. It may save me the journey."
"I may not. I swore on the Gospels I would not tell the secret to thy"—she paused—"to Wulfnoth."
"What! another secret?"
"Yes; and one thou dost not, canst not, suspect; but, I think, didst thou know it, thou wouldst at once return to Wallingford Castle."
"Tell me—tell me all."
"Wouldst have me forsworn? No; seek thy father." She emphasised the word, and then added, "Ask him to let me tell thee the whole truth, if he will not do so himself; then return and learn more than thy dead grandfather has told thee, or could have told thee, for he knew not the truth."
"Judith, I will seek my father, and return at once after I have seen him."