You know well that I am no traitor, and that I do not fly for fear." "Yes," she answered, in a changed tone, for his manly words touched her, "I know that." "It is for you that I fly, for your sake I will eat this dirt and crown myself with shame.

I fly that for the second time I may save you." "And in return you demand--what ?" "Yourself." "That I will not give, Caleb.

I reject your offer." "I feared it," he answered huskily, "who am accustomed to such denials.
Then I demand this, for know that if once you pass your word I may trust it: that you will not marry the Roman Marcus." "I cannot marry the Roman Marcus any more than I can marry you, because neither of you are Christians, and as you know well it is laid upon me as a birth duty that I may take no man to husband who is not a Christian." "For your sake, Miriam," he answered slowly, "I am prepared to be baptised into your faith.

Let this show you how much I love you." "It does not show that you love the faith, Caleb, nor if you did love it could I love you.

Jew or Christian, I cannot be your wife." He turned his face to the wall and for a while was silent.