But I can no more parley.

The sun is within a few minutes of twelve, and I must surrender, to meet such fate as may befall me." So saying, with a bow he left them, and again advanced to the castle gate.
"Sir Rudolph," he shouted, "the hour is at hand.

I call upon you to deliver, outside the gate, the lady, my mother.

Whether she wills it or not, I call upon you to place her beyond the gate, and I give you my knightly word that as she leaves it I enter it." Dame Editha would then have attempted resistance; but she saw that it would be useless.

With a pale face she descended the steps, accompanied by the men-at-arms.