The announcement was very brief, merely stating that he had been arrested in Cornwall.

The guarded significance of the information was not lost upon her.

Charles had been captured on his way back to her, and her agonized heart whispered that she was responsible for his fate.
Bitterly she now blamed herself for having let him go on the quest.

She hardly asked herself whether it had succeeded or failed, perhaps because she had subconsciously accepted the view that Thalassa, after all, had nothing to tell.

Nor did she think of the calamity which had again overtaken her love.