I promised that, but I would promise no more." "And did that satisfy him ?" asked Cuthbert breathlessly.

"Tell me all, my sister.

He did not dare lay hands on thee ?" Petronella smiled faintly.
"Methinks he would dare anything he wished; but he let himself be satisfied with that pledge.

Only he kept me many days in that dim place of terror, and gave me but scant prisoner's fare the while.
Cuthbert, as thou art free and thou art nigh, wilt thou to Trevlyn Chase for me ere thou goest back into the forest, and tell Philip what has befallen me, and that I may no more hope to meet him in our favourite haunts?
Tell him all I have told to thee, and bid him keep himself from this house.

It is an ill place! an ill place! Ah, Cuthbert, were I but a man like thee, I would fare forth as thou hast done.