he fell he had a vision of faces and bright colors, and when he sat up,
dazed and bewildered, he found himself face to face with the Lady Anne,
the daughter of the house, and her cousin, the Lady Alice, who clutching
one another tightly, stood staring at him with wide scared eyes.



CHAPTER 18

For a little time there was a pause of deep silence, during which the
fluttering leaves came drifting down from the broken arbor above.

It was the Lady Anne who first spoke. "Who art thou, and whence comest
thou?" said she, tremulously.

Then Myles gathered himself up sheepishly. "My name is Myles Falworth,"
said he, "and I am one of the squires of the body."

"Oh! aye!" said the Lady Alice, suddenly. "Me thought I knew thy face.
Art thou not the young man that I have seen in Lord George's train?"

"Yes, lady," said Myles, wrapping and twining a piece of the broken vine
in and out among his fingers. "Lord George hath often had me of late
about his person."

"And what dost thou do here, sirrah?" said Lady Anne, angrily. "How
darest thou come so into our garden?"

"I meant not to come as I did," said Myles, clumsily, and with a face
hot and red. "But I slipped over the top of the wall and fell hastily