She had followed the line of least resistance, lacked the dour courage to pull herself up in the beginning, and it led to this.

It hath been a dour fight hereaboutsthey have fought every yard of the way!" "Forsooth," nodded Cnut, "Sir Benedict is ever most fierce when he retreats, look you."

Now the Quakeress's hour had come, hers and that of the whole of the dour sect who had taken it upon itself to punish and to avenge.