When first I came to the house, not having been accustomed to so severe a punctuality, I gave my lord no little annoyance; for, oftener than once or twice, I walked into his dining-room not only after grace had been said, but after the first course had been sent down to the hall-tables.

My lord took his revenge in calling me the wild Irishwoman.' Here she laughed very sweetly.
'The only one,' she resumed, 'who does here as he will, is my husband.
Even lord Charles, who is governor of the castle, must be in his place to the moment; but for my husband--.' The bell rang a second time.

Lady Margaret rose, and taking Dorothy's arm, led her from the room into a long dim-lighted corridor.

Arrived at the end of it, where a second passage met it at right angles, she stopped at a door facing them.
'I think we shall find my lord of Worcester here,' she said in a whisper, as she knocked and waited a response.

'He is not here,' she said.