Now listen to me for a moment, cousin.

Should it come to a siege and I not at Raglan--the wise man will always provide for the worst--Caspar will be wanted everywhere.

Now this engine is essential to the health and comfort, if not to the absolute life of the castle, and there is no one at present capable of managing it save us two.

A very little instruction, however, would enable any one to do so: will you undertake it, cousin, in case of need ?' 'Make me assured that I can, and I will, my lord,' answered Dorothy.
'A good and sufficing answer,' returned his lordship, with a smile of satisfaction.

'First then,' he went on, 'I will show you wherein lies its necessity to the good of the castle.