"We have lain hidden all day, and were but making our escape." "How can that be, madam?
We had a guard all round the castle, and know that none can have escaped." "Being an esquire, you are a gentleman, sir, and will not disclose what I am about to tell you; though, indeed, now that our father's house is in your hands, it boots not much whether the secret is known.

There is a secret passage from the castle that opens into these bushes, and it was through that that we issued out; having been in hiding all day, in the secret chamber from which it leads.
"Well, sir, we are your prisoners; and shall, I suppose, be sent to London, there to be held until our father is in the usurper's hands, which will not be, believe me, for years yet." Oswald was silent.

The two girls, some seventeen or eighteen years of age, both possessed singular beauty they had inherited from their father; and bore themselves with an air of fearlessness that won his admiration.

He was still but a lad and, thinking of the years these fair girls might pass in a prison, he felt a deep pity for them.

He drew Roger aside.
"What think you, Roger?
Must we send these fair young girls to prison ?" "In faith, I know not, master.