Only he had got it firmly into his head that, but for the delay they had caused, all would be well.

Nothing could move him from this.
'Now I shall run away with her,' he repeated.
'She won't go with you,' my lady cried with scorn.
'I sha'n't ask her,' he answered.

'When there is no choice she will come to it.

I tell you I shall carry her off.

And if I am taken and hanged for it, I'll be hanged at Papworth--before your window.' 'You poor simpleton!' she said.