"So you tell me."
"You have seen him."
"So you say."
"I will have him!"
"That is as may be. Can I tell you ought else?"
"I can tell you that it will be the worse for all here if he be not given up at once. The Lord Protector has his eye upon this house."
"Then I wonder he has not seen the owner, since you say he is here."
"Faugh! 'Tis folly to bandy words with a woman! Ah, here is something!"—as a trooper was seen coming down the stairs leading Lady Travers.
At the sight Cecily broke away from her captor, and, running to meet her aunt, offered her arm as a support.
"What is the meaning of all this, Cecily?" asked the old lady.