MILDRED. So may it be! but-- You are cautious, Love? Are sure that unobserved you scaled the walls? MERTOUN. Oh, trust me! Then our final meeting's fixed To-morrow night? MILDRED. Farewell! stay, Henry... wherefore? His foot is on the yew-tree bough; the turf Receives him: now the moonlight as he runs Embraces him--but he must go--is gone. Ah, once again he turns--thanks, thanks, my Love! He's gone. Oh, I'll believe him every word! I was so young, I loved him so, I had No mother, God forgot me, and I fell. There may be pardon yet: all's doubt beyond! Surely the bitterness of death is past. ACT II SCENE.--The Library Enter LORD TRESHAM, hastily TRESHAM. This way! In, Gerard, quick! [As GERARD enters, TRESHAM secures the door.] Now speak! or, wait-- I'll bid you speak directly. [Seats himself.] Now repeat 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... TRESHAM. The last great yew-tree? GERARD. You might stand upon The main boughs like a platform. Then he... TRESHAM. Quick! GERARD. Climbs up, and, where they lessen at the top, --I cannot see distinctly, but he throws, I think--for this I do not vouch--a line That reaches to the lady's casement-- TRESHAM. --Which He enters not! Gerard, some wretched fool Dares pry into my sister's privacy! When such are young, it seems a precious thing To have approached,--to merely have approached, Got sight of the abode of her they set Their frantic thoughts upon. Ha does not enter? Gerard?