"It was yesterday. I went to see him. I had to tell him what I had done. I expected he would kill me. Perhaps it would have been better had he done so.
"I found him with his attorney, a man named Bisse, whom I have seen with him frequently.
"'Pray, madam, take a chair. I am your humble servant. You can go, Mr. Bisse,' said my lord. 'You have my instructions. Order the manager to proceed with the sale of the ships.'
"'With submission, my lord. We can send him orders, but we can only make him obey by proceeding according to law. He finds excuses. He makes delays. He talks of sacrificing the ships to a forced sale.'
"'You will not proceed according to law, my lord,' I told him.
"'Why, madam?'
"'Because I have been to Lynn myself, and have explained certain points in connection with the marriage service in St. Nicholas church.'
"My lord looked at me in his cold way, as if neither surprised nor moved.
"'Mr. Bisse,' he said, 'I will communicate again with you.' So the attorney left us. Then he turned again to me.
"'My lord,' I repeated, 'I have made a statement of all the facts.'