“My Lord Protector is quit (acquitted) of all ill, Mistress; and therefore the folk be thus glad.”
“In very deed!” said Isoult, “and therefore am I right glad. But, Gillian, are you certain thereof?”
“Nay,” said she; “I do know no more than that all the folk say so much.”
Two hours more passed before John came home.
“Well, Jack!” said Dr Thorpe, so soon as he heard his foot on the threshold, “so my Lord of Somerset is quit of all charges?”
“Who told you so much?” inquired John.
“All the folk say so,” answered Isoult.
“All the folk mistake, then,” answered he, sadly. “He is quit of high treason, but that only; and is cast for death (Note 6) of felony, and remitted again unto the Tower.”
“Cast for death!” cried Dr Thorpe and Isoult together.
Avery sat down with a weary air.