“She hath recovered,” answered Adam.
“Then, prithee, go tell her suitor, Don Felix, I would speak with him awhile,” said Bernard. “But, hold! here comes Master Headborough.”
The constable, having regaled himself to his heart’s content, was indeed in view, and shortly came up with them.
“Soh, Master Headborough!” Bernard then cried, “thou hast been refreshing with a witness! Is ’t thus thou requitest my care of thee? But no more words! Let us now look to our charge!”
Here he pushed back the door, and, followed by the constable and Adam, passed into the chapel.
“Soh! what’s here?” he cried.
The window was open, and the priest, whom they were about to remove to prison, had escaped.