"You foolish child," returned Margaret. I must rate this Master Manners for his presumption. Sir Thomas will have talked the matter over with your father ere now, as they journeyed up to London."
"It will be of no use even if he has. John Manners has my pledge, and
I shall keep it with him, too."
"Tut, child, this is idle talk. By now the matter is all arranged for you, and very thankful ought you to be. If Master Manners is a gentleman——"
"He is a gentleman."
"He will think no more about you, then, after he knows the facts," said Margaret sharply, and passing out of the room she left Dorothy alone to her tears, while she tried to discover the happy esquire to give him a piece of her mind.
CHAPTER XIV.
AN UNPLEASANT NIGHT.
But justice though her dome she doe prolong,
Yet at the last she will her own cause right.
SPENSER.
When the landlord of the Cock Tavern thoughtlessly gave his prisoner into the custody of the ostler he put Edmund Wynne in the way of the only piece of good fortune which fell to his share on that unlucky day.