And I, because as a child it was my lot to meet one wholly given over to evil, have seen more and clearer than all that have gone before me.
But now I do foresee the end of the wickedest and most devilish soul ever prisoned within the body of man." As she spoke the heads of the three Scots bent lower and closer to catch every word, for the voice of the Lady Sybilla was more like the cooing of a mating turtle as it answers its comrade than that of a woman betrayed, denouncing vengeance and death upon him whom her soul hated.
"Be of good heart, then, and depart as I shall bid you.

None can help or hinder here at Machecoul but I alone.

Be sure that at the worst the unnameable shall not happen to the maids.

For in me there is the power to slay the evil-doer.

But slay I will not unless it be to keep the lives of the maids.