Many a look did Dorothy cast around her as she rode, but only once, on the crest of a grassy hill that rose abrupt from the highway a few miles from Raglan, did she catch sight of Richard mounted on Lady. All her life after, as often as trouble came, that figure rose against the sky of her inner world, and was to her a type of the sleepless watch of the universe. Soon, from flank and rear, in this direction and that, each to some haven or home, servants and soldiers began to drop away. Before they reached the forest of Dean, the cortege had greatly dwindled, for many belonged to villages, small towns, and farms on the way, and their orders had been to go home and wait better times. When he reached London, except the chief officers of his household, one of his own pages, and some of his daughters' gentlewomen and menials, the marquis had few attendants left beyond Caspar and Shafto. It was a long and weary journey for him, occupying a whole week. One evening he was so tired and unwell that they were forced to put up with what quarters they could find in a very poor little town. Early in the morning, however, they were up and away. When they had gone some ten miles--lord Charles was riding beside the coach and chatting with his sisters--a remark was made not complimentary to their accommodation of the previous night. 'True,' said lord Charles; 'it was a very scurvy inn, but we must not forget that the reckoning was cheap.' While he spoke, one of the household had approached the marquis, who sat on the other side of the carriage, and said something in a low voice. 'Say'st thou so!' returned his lordship. '--Hear'st thou, my lord Charles? Thou talkest of a cheap reckoning! I never paid so dear for a lodging in my life. Here is master Wharton hath just told me that they have left a thousand pound under a bench in the chamber we broke our fast in. Truly they are overpaid for what we had!' 'We have sent back after it, my lord,' said Mr. Wharton. 'You will never see the money again,' said lord Charles. 'Oh, peace!' said the marquis. 'If they will not be known of the money, you shall see it in a brave inn in a short time.' Nothing more was said on the matter, and the marquis seemed to have forgotten it. Late at night, at their next halting-place, the messenger rejoined them, having met a drawer, mounted on a sorry horse, riding after them with the bag, but little prospect of overtaking them before they reached London. 'I thought our hostess seemed an honest woman!' said lady Anne. 'It is a poor town, indeed, lord Charles, but you see it is an honest one nevertheless!' said Dr. Bayly. 'It may be the town never saw so much money before,' said the marquis, 'and knew not what to make of it.' 'Your lordship is severe,' said the doctor. 'Only with my tongue, good doctor, only with my tongue,' said the marquis, laughing.