It is between you and God; but it is hard that I must lose my love so soon." Peter looked up, and Castell answered: "Lose him! Why, what did he swear but now ?" "I care not what he swore; but how can I ask him, who is of noble, Christian birth, to marry the daughter of a Jew who all his life has passed himself off as a worshipper of that Jesus Whom he denies ?" Now Peter held up his hand.
"Have done with such talk," he said.

"Were your father Judas himself, what is that to you and me?
You are mine and I am yours till death part us, nor shall the faith of another man stand between us for an hour.
Sir, we thank you for your confidence, and of this be sure, that although it makes us sorrowful, we do not love or honour you the less because now we know the truth." Margaret rose from her chair, looked a while at her father, then with a sob threw herself suddenly upon his breast.
"Forgive me if I spoke bitterly," she said, "who, not knowing that I was half a Jewess, have been taught to hate their race.

What is it to me of what faith you are, who think of you only as my dearest father ?" "Why weep then ?" asked Castell, stroking her hair tenderly.
"Because you are in danger, or so you say, and if anything happened to you--oh! what shall I do then ?" "Accept it as the will of God, and bear the blow bravely, as I hope to do, should it fall," he answered, and, kissing her, left the chapel.
"It seems that joy and trouble go hand in hand," said Margaret, looking up presently.
"Yes, Sweet, they were ever twins; but provided we have our share of the first, do not let us quarrel with the second.

A pest on the priests and all their bigotry, say I! Christ sought to convert the Jews, not to kill them; and for my part I can honour the man who clings to his own faith, aye, and forgive him because they forced him to feign to belong to ours.
Pray then that neither of us may live to commit a greater sin, and that we may soon be wed and dwell in peace away from London, where we can shelter him." "I do--I do," she answered, drawing close to Peter, and soon they forgot their fears and doubts in each other's arms.
On the following morning, that of Sunday, Peter, Margaret, and Betty went together to Mass at St.Paul's church; but Castell said that he was ill, and did not come.

Indeed, now that his conscience was stirred as to the double life he had led so long, he purposed, if he could avoid it, to worship in a Christian church no more.