The Chancellor hath sent word that there is no room in the castle itself.

For the tutor's men and King's men have already filled it to the brim." These tidings agonised Sholto more than ever.
"My lord," he said, in a tortured whisper, "turn about your rein and we will cut our way out even yet.

Do you not see that the devils would separate you from all who love you?
And I shall be blamed for this in Galloway.

At least, let me accompany you with half a dozen men." "Nay," said the Earl, "such suspicion were a poor return for the Chancellor's putting himself in our hands all the days we spent with him at his Castle of Crichton.

To your lodgings, Sholto, and give God thanks if there be therein a pretty maid or a dame complaisant, according to the wont of young squires and men-at-arms." In this fashion rode the Earl of Douglas to take his first dinner in the Castle of Edinburgh.