'Anan?' Then he fingered the dagger on the chain before his chest.
'Why,' he added slowly, 'then the Magister shall die by the rope. It is
an offence that can be quitted with death. It is time such a thing were
done.'
Katharine's dull silence spurred him; he shrugged his shoulders and
heaved a deep breath out.
'Why,' he said, 'a man can be found to wed the wench.'