"You are countess, as you say.

Who is your husband, and where is he ?" "You have no right to ask.

I must leave you now.

Ah! If indeed I had a protector here--some man of that country where men fight--" "I have said that you shall not leave." "But this passes belief.

It is insult, it is simple outrage! I am alone--I come to you asking protection in the name of a man's chivalry,--an American's.