But though driven away he was not defeated, for he yet found means of hearing from his betrothed, and even occasionally to correspond with her, but he soon found that the long absence grew more and more unendurable, until at last he determined to venture forward at every risk to be near her again.
"And so they would force Mistress Dorothy to marry Sir Thomas Stanley's brother?" said the forester after a pause, as he handed the little missive back.
"Yes, and Dorothy conjures you to help us. You will do it, will you not?"
"So good as she has been to my poor little Lettice, yes, that I will do; but how?"
"I must be a forester."
"'Tis a rough life for such as thee, Master Manners."
"Yes."
"And it is dangerous, too, at times."
"Aye, I know."
"And then if you were to be discovered?"