And the braver the man, the more she would have him in her service, at her feet, the centre of the world." "I had served her in a crisis, an hour of peril.

Was naught due me ?" The Duke's Daughter drew her close.

"She never meant but that all should be well.

And because you had fastened on her feelings as never I have seen another of your sex, so for the moment she resented it; and because De la Foret was yours--ah, if you had each been naught to the other, how easy it would have run! Do you not understand ?" "Nay, then, and yea, then--and I put it from me.

See, am I not happy now?
Upon your friendship I build." "Sweet, I did what I could.