"Sir Roland Brooke has returned home.

He knows that you have disobeyed him.

He knows that you are here with me.

You will not dare to face him.

You have gone too far to return." She gasped hysterically, and tottered for an instant, but recovered herself.
"I will--I will go back!" she said.
"He will beat you like a labourer's wife," warned the jester.