Firmly and circumstantially the tale
You just now told me; it eludes me; either
I did not listen, or the half is gone
Away from me. How long have you lived here?
Here in my house, your father kept our woods
Before you?

GERARD. --As his father did, my lord.
I have been eating, sixty years almost,
Your bread.

TRESHAM. Yes, yes. You ever were of all
The servants in my father's house, I know,
The trusted one. You'll speak the truth.

GERARD. I'll speak
God's truth. Night after night...

TRESHAM. Since when?

GERARD. At least
A month--each midnight has some man access
To Lady Mildred's chamber.

TRESHAM. Tush, "access"--
No wide words like "access" to me!

GERARD. He runs
Along the woodside, crosses to the South,
Takes the left tree that ends the avenue...