“No. He was arrested.”
“Ah!” ejaculated Lady Gowan. “Arrested—why?”
Frank hastily explained.
“Oh the horror of these meetings! But this man, your father struck him? But why?”
Frank repeated his father’s message, and Lady Gowan looked bewildered.
“I cannot understand,” she said. “These German officers are favourites of the King, and the baron must have cruelly insulted your father, or he, who is so brave and strong and gentle, would never have done this. They are proud and overbearing, and I know treat our English officers with contempt. Yes, it must have been from that. When was it?”
“At daybreak.”
“Where?”
“Just yonder in the Park.”
“And your father took you?” said Lady Gowan, with a look of horror.