Gaydon, being the oldest of the party, figured as the Count of Cernes, Mrs.Misset as his wife, Clementina as his niece, and Wogan as a friend of the family.

O'Toole and Misset rode beside the carriage in the guise of servants.

Thus they started from Nazareth, and had journeyed perhaps a mile when without so much as a moan Clementina swooned and fell forward into Wogan's arms.

Mrs.Misset uttered a cry; Wogan clasped the Princess to his breast.

Her head fell back across his arm, pale as death; her eyes were closed; her bosom, strained against his, neither rose nor fell.
"She has fasted all Lent," he said in a broken voice.