It is said by some a trap was laid for him on the staircase.

And if it was,' the man continued, after a pause, his true feeling finding sudden vent, 'it is a black shame that the law does not punish it! But the coroner brought it in an accident.' Sir George shrugged his shoulders.

Then, moved by curiosity and a desire to learn something about the girl, 'His daughter takes it hardly,' he said.
The man grunted.

'Ah,' he said, 'maybe she has need to.

Your honour does not come from him ?' 'From Whom?
I come from no one.' 'To be sure, sir, I was forgetting.