"That is so, Lady; but 'tis as a visitor rather to your sisters, the Ladies Jane and Margaret, that I am here. I had, once, the pleasure of meeting them."
Glendower's daughter at once told a maid, who was working with her when the officer had entered, to request her sisters to come to her; and these entered the room a minute later.
Isabel, seeing that they did not appear to recognize the young knight, said:
"Our father has sent this gentleman, Sir Oswald Forster, whom you know, to visit you."
The two girls looked with surprise at Oswald.
"Do you not know this gentleman?" their sister asked, in equal surprise.
"He is not known to us," Jane replied. "I have never seen him before--at least, that I can remember."
"We have met before, nevertheless, Lady," Oswald said, with a smile; "though it may well be that you do not remember my face, or that of my squire there; seeing that we were together but a few minutes, and that in the moonlight."
The girls looked up at him puzzled, and then their eyes fell upon Roger.
"Now I know!" Margaret exclaimed. "Look at the squire's height. Surely, Jane, these are the two soldiers who allowed us to pass them, that night when we fled from Sycharth."