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Enter Grizeld Bane.

GRIZELD BANE (looking on her with stern contempt).

Who speaks of Grizeld Bane with such unwary words? Repeat them, I pray thee. (Mary stands abashed.) Thou whit not.—(To Elspy, in like manner.) And what hast thou to say of Grizeld Bane? (A pause.) And thou, too, art silent before my face.

ELSPY LOW.

There's a callant frae Dungarren, i' the nook, that comes on an errand to thee.

GRIZELD BANE (to Bawldy).

Do not tremble so, silly child! What is thine errand?

BAWLDY.

She bade me——she bade me say—ye maun come to her.

GRIZELD BANE.

To whom, and where? Thou speakest as if my hand were already on thy throat, where it shall very soon be, if thou tell not thy errand more distinctly.

BAWLDY.

The stranger leddy at the tower, the Leddy