"Learn!" violently. "The way I told you he would!"
"You mean—"
"That I was betrayed and you were—by the Lady Elise—"
"Impossible!" the Black Seigneur exclaimed with sudden violence.
"Because she has a pretty face!" sneered the other.
"Silence! Or—"
"That is it!" The servant's voice rose stridently. "Beaten at one end, threatened at the other!"
The arm the young man had reached out fell to his side. "Hush! You're mad; you don't know what you're saying!"
"And you did not know what you were doing! Oh, I dare say it—I tell you now I little liked the task of taking her back; expecting some sort of treachery, and, when it came, was not surprised! Any more than, when they had brought me before the Governor, I saw her at the cloister—watching, hiding—"
"Hiding!"