Cadfael's careful search of the area shows rope marks on two nearby trees.

We don't want rope marks when they find her.

Look at these rope marks on the poor girl's wrists!

She didn't have a rope mark on her, no one suspected.

The rock with the rope marks is on display by the Kiltartin river.

An especially large dark stain was situated below the rope mark.

I looked at your arms, incidentally, and the rope marks were gone.

"My son dies every day," she said, recalling his small body and neck with rope marks.

I was interested in the rope mark about the neck.

Right with the rope mark," he said, "was another line - so thin you could hardly see it.