Thereupon the Door is opened, but not by _Tib_; and my Master, collaring _Miles_, strikes him, but not so severely as for him to do what he did, which was to fall all along on the Ground and emit one or two hollow Grones. Master _Hewet_, witting him to be scarce hurt, waxed very angry, and pulling him up, would know how he got out, but _Miles_ would not tell. Then he would know why he called on _Tib_ through the Keyhole, as though expecting her to be at Hand; and he made Answer, Because her Name came readiest, and he was less afeard of her than of any else, but she wist not of his being out. My Master said, That should be seen to, and how did he get the Key? He said Mistress _Fraunces_ had forgotten to take it up. But Mistress _Fraunces_, when called up, remembered well to have laid it on her Toilette ere she went to Bed, and was avised _Tib_ must have fetched it while she was asleep. But, on going to _Tib_, Mistress _Fraunces_ found her sleeping so heavily, that after much shaking, all she could get out of her was, "Thieves! Thieves!" So the Matter stood over; Master _Hewet_ putting it to _Miles_ whether he wist not that he might have him up before the Wardens, and see him hardly dealt with. So _Miles_ came back to his Bed, sullen enough. But a Woman's own Tongue is oft her worst Enemy. The next Morning, though Nothing could be got out of _Miles_ nor of _Tib_, yet Mistress _Fraunces_, being in her own Bed-chamber, instead of at Market, as _Tib_ supposed, hears _Tib_, who was concluded to be making my Master's Bed, a talking from his Window to the Maid in the corresponding Window across the Strete. And although, by Reason of the two Tenements being so very few Feet apart in their upper Stories, there was hardly need for _Tib_ to speak above her Breath, yet Mistress _Fraunces_, quickened by Curiosity, could hear almost every Word, and how that _Tib_ had come into her Chamber when she was asleep, and took the Key and lent it to _Miles_, who had promised her a tawdry Ribbon for it: and how the Watchman saw him go forth, and aroused my Master, who set on him when he returned, and beat him within an Inch of his Life. And how Mistress _Fraunces_—But here Mistress _Fraunces_ spoiled all, in her Anxiety to hear the Particulars of her own Character; for, advancing a little too near the Casement, that she might not lose a Syllable, she was caught Sight of by the Neighbour's Maid, who, without Doubt, made a Signal to _Tib_. Whereupon, _Tib_, after a Moment's Pause, added, and how that if Mistress _Fraunces_ were not the sweetest and mercifullest of Ladies, there would be no Chance of her forgiving such a Misdeed when she came to hear it, as _Tib_ meant she should the very first Time she could find Heart to confess it to the sweetest and best of Ladies.