Why was the attempt made to blow it up ?" "Some Frenchman's hatred of the English, they say." "But I am not French." "They do not know.

You speak French as perfectly as English--ah, Monsieur, Monsieur, I believe you are whatever you say." Pain and appeal rang from her lips.
"I am only an honest tailor," he answered gently.

He ruled his face to calmness, for he read the agony in the girl's face, and troubled as he was, he wished to show her that he had no fear.
"It is for what you were they will arrest you," she said helplessly, and as though he needed to have all made clear to him.

"Oh, Monsieur," she continued, in a broken voice, "it would shame me so to have you made a prisoner in Chaudiere--before all these silly people, who turn with the wind.

I should not lift my head--but yes, I should lift my head!" she added hurriedly.