“Have you had a good evening, sir?” she asked.
He nodded briskly.
“And you, child?” he asked.
“Yes, sir,” she said, smiling up at him.
“And was Sir Nicholas there?”
She told him what had passed, and how Sir Nicholas had been fined again for his recusancy; and how Lady Maxwell had sung one of Sir Thomas Wyatt’s songs.
“And was no one else there?” he asked.
“Yes, father, Hubert.”
“Ah! And did Hubert come home with you?”
“Only as far as the gate, father. I would not let him come further.”