They drank of the full cup, and so he hath come now to the drains.

It skills not why we each desire to make an end of him.

We are agreed on the fact.

The question is _how_." It was again the voice of de Retz which replied, the deep silence of afternoon resting like a weight upon all about them.
"If we write him a letter inviting him to the Castle of Edinburgh, he will assuredly not come; but if we first entertain him with open courtesy at one of your castles on the way, where you, most wise Chancellor, must put yourself wholly in his hands, he will suspect nothing.

There, when all his suspicions are lulled, he will again meet the Lady Sybilla; it will rest with her to bring him to Edinburgh." The Chancellor had been busily writing on the parchment before him whilst de Retz was speaking.