Robin turned to the girl.
"I have had no more news of him since what I wrote to you," she said quietly. "After I had spoken with him, and he had given me the warning, he held himself aloof."
"Hath he been at any of the trials at Derby?"
She bowed her head.
"He was at the trial of Mr. Garlick," she said; "last year; and was one of those who spoke for his banishment."
* * * * *
And then, on a sudden, Mistress Alice moved in her corner, where she sat with the widow of her brother.
"And what of her Grace?" she said. "Is it true what Dick told us before supper, that Parliament hath sentenced her?"
Robin shook his head.
"I hear so much gossip," he said, "in the taverns, that I believe nothing. I had not heard that. Tell me what it was."