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Who speaks of Grizeld Bane with such unwary words? Repeat them, I pray thee. ( stands abashed.) Thou whit not.—(To, in like manner.) And what hast thou to say of Grizeld Bane? (A pause.) And thou, too, art silent before my face.

There's a callant frae Dungarren, i' the nook, that comes on an errand to thee.

Do not tremble so, silly child! What is thine errand?

She bade meshe bade me say—ye maun come to her.

To whom, and where? Thou speakest as if my hand were already on thy throat, where it shall very soon be, if thou tell not thy errand more distinctly.

The stranger leddy at the tower, the Leddy