"What have I done ?" "Your regrets come late, Mistress Vernon," said I.
"She shall have more to regret," said Sir George, sullenly.

"Go to your room, you brazen, disobedient huzzy, and if you leave it without my permission, by God, I will have you whipped till you bleed.

I will teach you to say 'I won't' when I say 'you shall.' God curse my soul, if I don't make you repent this day!" As I left the room Dorothy was in tears, and Sir George was walking the floor in a towering rage.

The girl had learned that I was right in what I had told her concerning her father's violent temper.
I went at once to my room in Eagle Tower and collected my few belongings in a bundle.

Pitifully small it was, I tell you.
Where I should go I knew not, and where I should remain I knew even less, for my purse held only a few shillings--the remnant of the money Queen Mary had sent to me by the hand of Sir Thomas Douglas.