Sir Richard, however, was very firm.

And when at last he left Rochester to return to town and his adoptive son, a coolness marked the parting of those two adherents of the Stuart dynasty.
Returned to London--whence his absence had been marked with alarm by Mr.
Green--Sir Richard had sent a message to Mr.Caryll, and the latter made haste to answer it in person.
His adoptive father received him with open arms, and such a joy in his face, such a light in his old eyes as should have gladdened his visitor, yet only served sadden him the more.

He sighed as Sir Richard thrust him back that he might look at him.
"Ye're pale, boy," he said, "and ye look thinner." And with that he fell to reviling the deed that was the cause of this, Rotherby and the whole brood of Ostermore.
"Let be," said Mr.Caryll, as he dropped into a chair.

"Rotherby is undergoing his punishment.

The town looks on him as a cut-throat who has narrowly escaped the gallows.