“That will do for the twenty-fifth. There might be the right of escorting you home from Scarsmoor by the path called—Helena’s?”
“On the prescribed terms it is your lordship’s.”
“What then of the right to see you daily, and day by day?”
“If your leisure serves, my lord, I will endeavour to adjust mine—so long as we both remain at Fillby. But so that the homage is paid!”
“I’m bound to tell you of my whereabouts only on St John Baptist’s Feast.”
“The right to know it on other days—would that be recognised in return for a homage, Marchesa?”
“One homage for so many letters?”
“I had sooner there were no letters—and daily homages.”
“You take too many obligations—and too lightly.”