When you met me--the first time I ever saw you, sir,--I felt my heart turn cold." "Madam!" "And when the door of the coach closed on myself and my maid,--when we rolled on away from the city, in spite of all I could do or say--, why, then, sir, you were my jailer.

Have matters changed since then ?" "Madam, from the first you were splendid! You showed pure courage.
'I am a prisoner!' you cried at first--not more than that.

But you said it like a lady, a noblewoman.

I admired you then because you faced me--whom you had never seen before--with no more fear than had I been a private and you my commanding officer." "Fear wins nothing." "Precisely.

Then let us not fear what the future may have for us.
I have no directions beyond this point,--Pittsburg.