u are not to be left unwatched for a single instant.
There is a woman in the house--the housekeeper. She and her husband
will enter this room when I leave it; and I advise you to say nothing to
them against this arrangement."

"They shall have no peace with me."

"I am sorry for it. It will be a bad preparation for your further
journey. You would do better to lie down and rest,--for which ample
time shall be allowed."

The people in charge of the house were summoned, and ordered, in the
lady's hearing, to watch her rest, and on no account to leave the room
till desired to do so. A table was set out in one corner, with meat and
bread, wine and ale. But the unhappy lady would not attempt either to
eat or sleep. She sat by the fire, faint, weary and gloomy. She
listened to the sounds from below till the whole party had supped, and
lain down for the night. Then she watched her guards,--the woman
knitting, and the man reading his Bible. At last, she could hold up no
longer. Her head sank on her breast, and she was scarcely conscious of
being gently lifted, laid upon the bed, and covered up warm with cloak
and plaid.

CHAPTER FOUR.

NEWSPAPERS.

Lady Carse did not awake till the afternoon of the next day; and then
she saw the housekeeper sitting knitting on the same chair, and looking
as if she had never stirred since she took her place there in the middle
of the night. The man was not there.

The woman cheerfully invited the lady to rise and refresh herself, and
come to the fire, and then go down and dine. But Lady Carse's spirit
was awake as soon as her eyes were. She said she would never rise--
never eat again. The woman begged her to think better of it, or she
should be obliged to call her husband to resume his watch, and to let
Mr Forster know of her refusal to take food. To this the poor lady
answered only by burying her face in the coverings, and remaining silent
and motionless, for all the woman could say.

In a little while, up came Mr Forster, with three Highlanders. They
lifted her, as if she had been a child, placed her in an easy chair by
the fireside, held back her head, and poured down her throat a basin
full of strong broth.

"It grieves me, madam," said Mr Forster, "to be compelled to treat you
thus--like a wayward child. But I am answerable for your life. You
will be fed in this way as often as you decline necessary food."

"I defy you still," she cried.

"Indeed!" said h