text:  How he had known from their friends without the means provided to effect his father's escape; how he too had sought with desperation the midnight watch upon which depended his father's delivery; and finding himself overcome by his supposed rival he had administered to him a sleeping draught in order to secure the post; how his pretended admiration for Mistress Mildred had been assumed in order to forward his views and colour his designs by giving a pretext to his desire to obtain the post of sentry in the court; how Mildred had never given him any encouragement Gerald's unreasonable jealousy having supplied the rest