Lie you still, and shut your eyes, and think of your wedding-night, while I look up this chimney to see if Master Gerard is there." "Gerard! in my room ?" "Why not?
They say that you and he--" "Cruel! you know they have driven him away from me--driven him from his native place.

This is a blind.

You are thieves; you are wicked men; you are not men of Sevenbergen, or you would know Margaret Brandt better than to look for her lover in this room of all others in the world.

Oh, brave! Four great hulking men to come, armed to the teeth, to insult one poor honest girl! The women that live in your own houses must be naught, or you would respect them too much to insult a girl of good character." "There! come away, before we hear worse," said Dierich hastily.

"He is not in the chimney.