“How is it with him?”

“Passing well, for aught I know.”

“Thou didst him to wit of all this matter?”

“Said I not that I so would?”

“But didst thou?” she repeated, noting the evasion.

“I did so.”

In saying which, Edward told a deliberate falsehood.

“And when will he be at Cardiff?”

“When the wind bloweth him thither,” said the Duke drily.

“Now, Ned!”