He was no thief, my lord.

Your lordship's page and fool were the thieves.' 'Cousin, I hardly know myself in the change I find in thee! Truly, a marvellous change! In the dark night thou takest a roundhead prisoner; in the gray of the morning thou settest him free again! Hath one visit to his chamber so wrought upon thee?
To an old man it seemeth less than maidenly.' Again a burning blush overspread poor Dorothy's countenance.

But she governed herself, and spoke bravely, although she could not keep her voice from trembling.
'My lord,' she said, 'Richard Heywood was my playmate.

We were as brother and sister, for our fathers' lands bordered each other.' 'Thou didst say nothing of these things last night ?' 'My lord! Before the whole hall?
Besides, what mattered it?
All was over long ago, and I had done my part against him.' 'Fell you out together then ?' 'What need is there for your lordship to ask?
Thou seest him of the one part, and me of the other.' 'And from loving thou didst fall to hating ?' 'God forbid, my lord! I but do my part against him.' 'For the which thou hadst a noble opportunity unsought, raising the hue and cry upon him within his enemy's walls!' 'I would to God, my lord, it had not fallen to me.' 'Thinking better of it, therefore, and repenting of thy harshness, thou didst seek his chamber in the night to tell him so?
I would fain know how a maiden reasoneth with herself when she doth such things.' 'Not so, my lord.

I will tell you all.