'Thy fair eyes are worth a thousand oaths.

But to the question: tell me wherefore didst thou not let the young man go when first thou spied him?
Wherefore didst ring the alarm-bell?
Thou sawest he was upon his own mare, for thou knewest her--didst thou not ?' 'I did, my lord; but he had no business there, and I was of my lord Worcester's household.

Here I am not Dorothy Vaughan, but my lady's gentlewoman.' 'Then why didst thou go to his room thereafter?
Didst thou not know it for the most perilous adventure maiden could undergo ?' 'Perilous it hath indeed proved, my lord.' 'And might have proved worse than perilous.' 'No, my lord.

Other danger was none where Richard was,' returned Dorothy with vehemence.
'It beareth a look as if mayhap thou dost or mightst one day love the young man!' said lord Herbert in slow pondering tone.
'My spirit hath of late been driven to hold him company, my lord.

It seemed that, save Caspar, I had no friend left but him.