You know he is going back to Spain." "Going! Has his ransom come ?" "Yes, and with it a governorship in the Indies." "Governorship! Much good may it do the governed." "Why not, then?
He is surely a most gallant gentleman." "Gallant enough--yes," said Cary, carelessly.

"I must find him, and congratulate him on his honors." "I will help you to find him," said Lady Grenville, whose woman's eye and ear had already suspected something.

"Escort me, sir." "It is but too great an honor to squire the Queen of Bideford," said Cary, offering his hand.
"If I am your queen, sir, I must be obeyed," answered she, in a meaning tone.

Cary took the hint, and went on chattering cheerfully enough.
But Don Guzman was not to be found in garden or in pleasaunce.
"Perhaps," at last said a burgher's wife, with a toss of her head, "your ladyship may meet with him at Hankford's oak." "At Hankford's oak! what should take him there ?" "Pleasant company, I reckon" (with another toss).

"I heard him and Mistress Salterne talking about the oak just now." Cary turned pale and drew in his breath.
"Very likely," said Lady Grenville, quietly.