‘ Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house, where her lord was, until it was light.'
The woman struggled back to the house but it would seem that she had been so maltreated that she collapsed there and had no strength to knock. And there she lay until it was light. ‘Her lord.' That is her husband who was called her ‘lord', not because she had been his servant, but because she was his wife.