"A pale young woman: I fear me, a leman of that evil man."
"Was she a mother?"
"Who has taught thee to put such questions as these, young man?" she said, with something of severity in her voice.
"Answer me, Lady Lester, I pray thee!"
"She had an infant of three days' old."
"Was it with her in thy room ere thou becamest a mother?"
"It was."
"Did you see it?"
"No; she kept it swathed up, as if from shame."
"Who first gave your infant to your arms?"