If you are doing quite as you like, why should you ask me to come to your aid?
And why will you not now accept my aid when it is offered?
The relations under which you have been traveling with this other gentleman were not quite clear to me, but such as they were--" "Do you lack courage, sir, to say that he has quit-claimed me to you?
Am I still a prisoner?
Are you to be my new jailer?
By what right, then ?" Dunwody had not gathered all the story of this woman and her earlier guardian; more than she herself could guess what had been Carlisle's motive or plan in leaving her to her own devices.

That she was the victim simply of a daring kidnapping could, not have occurred to him.

What then did she mean by talking of prisoners?
"After all, you were not that amanuensis which you yourself claimed to be ?" "I was not.

Of course I was not.

I am the Countess St.Auban.