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“How dare you come here?” Hester retorted. “Isn’t it enough that you have insulted me on my own land, without coming into my house to insult me here, too? Your very presence is intolerable to me, sir.”

“But my lady—” Maud tried to interrupt.

“No, Maud. I will not have this miscreant in my house. There is no hospitality here for such as he.”

“But he is—”

“I wouldn’t care if he were the king himself,” Hester interrupted. “After the way he treated me this afternoon, only an imbecile or an oaf would expect me to offer him hospitality. Which, sir, are you?”

His eyes locked with hers and seemed to pierce her. The whole courtyard appeared to hold its breath as the stranger replied.

“I am Guy, Lord of Abbascombe,” he said. “And you are my wife.”