Hastings was conversing in a low voice with Sibyll.

The dame of Longueville whispered in the courtier's ear, drew him into the hall, and left him alone with the false friar, who had drawn the cowl over his face.
"Lord Hastings," said Hilyard, speaking rapidly, "you are in danger, if not of loss of life, of loss of favour.

You gave a passport to one Warner to see the ex-king Henry.

Warner's simplicity (for he is innocent) hath been duped,--he is made the bearer of secret intelligence from the unhappy gentlemen who still cling to the Lancaster cause.

He is suspected, he is examined; he may be questioned by the torture.