'What are you about? What harm are you doing?' asked Zita.
'We are serving out chastisement to your master for what he has done to our lads,' answered Pip.
'You will not hurt him?'
'Not in person.'
'What, then, will you do?'
'Go your way. We are letting the water out over his land.'
Ephraim conducted Zita a little way along the tow-path on the bank.
'Attend to me,' said he. 'Go anywhere you will except back to Prickwillow. We have our men drawn across the way. You cannot pass, it is in vain for you to attempt it. Keep to the bank, and keep at a distance from us.'
'Where is Mark Runham?'
'I have not seen him.'