Chapter 151 No.151

Some half-hour's march behind, there came,

By Eustace governed fair,

A troop escorting Hilda's dame,

With all her nuns and Clare.

No audience had Lord Marmion sought;

Ever he feared to aggravate

Clara de Clare's suspicious hate;

And safer 'twas, he thought,

To wait till, from the nuns removed,

The influence of kinsmen lov