She sat there for an hour, and then, when the sun was setting, she left the drunken man sleeping, and made her way down the hill to the Cloistered House.

Entering, she was summoned to her mistress's room.

"I did not expect my lady so soon," she said, surprised.
"No; we came sooner than we expected.

Where have you been ?" "At Soolsby's hut on the hill, my lady." "Who is Soolsby ?" Kate told her all she knew, and of what had happened that afternoon--but not all..