"'If thine enemy hunger, feed him,'" said Elspeth. "I did not ask him on which side he fought. I gave him bread and meat and drink, and took him by the little stairs to my own chamber. It was the only safe place, and I bade him sleep there till I wakened him in the morning.
"I spent the night watching my uncle and dozing by his bedside. In the morning, when it was an hour past dawn, I thought of my other charge and went to my chamber. He was gone."
"God in heaven!" said Ottilie. "And that was the captain there?"
"I could not swear to it!" said Elspeth, blushing again. "I think it was."
"It is possible also that he came back to the house to see what had happened to you on the second day of the sack!"
"I wonder if he did," said Elspeth. "I should like to think so!"