Then perhaps he is in love with her." Betty shook her head, and replied: "Peter Brome doesn't think anything of women, Senor.

At least he never speaks to or of them." "Which shows that probably he thinks about them all the more.

Well, well, it is no affair of ours, is it?
Only I am glad to hear that there is nothing between them, since your mistress ought to marry high, and be a great lady, not a mere merchant's wife." "Yes, Senor.

Though Peter Brome is not a merchant, at least by birth, he is high-born, and should be Sir Peter Brome if his father had not fought on the wrong side and sold his land.

He is a soldier, and a very brave one, they say, as all might see last night." "No doubt, and perhaps would make a great captain, if he had the chance, with his stern face and silent tongue.