“Nothing—nothing.”
“Come near me.”
With a loud cry, she crossed herself.
“Ah! thou knowest me!”
“I do not fear.”
“Thou shalt surely perish, utterly—thou and thine! What hast thou seen? What hast thou heard?”
“Nothing—nothing.”
“By a lie thou fallest.”
As she flinched from him she saw Robert approaching, his head drooping, and his hands clasped.
“Speak not—fall away from the cross thou hast shadowed. Fall away, I say.”