Du Mor. I was your father’s friend—

I knew them well.

Rai. (thoughtfully.) The weight of gloom that hangs—

The very banners seem to droop with it—

O’er some of those old rooms! Were we there now,

With a dull wind heaving the pale tapestries,

Why, I could tell you——

[Coming closer to Du Mornay.

There’s a dark-red spot

Grain’d in the floor of one—you know the tale?