Do not stop to think whether I am right, whether it is the better plan, but do it at once, because I have said so." "I will do it," he replied.

Then she saw a shadow fall over his face.
"There is nothing really in them, I suppose, Lady Lisle ?" "Nothing," she said, "but the cry of a woman's breaking heart! Enough to ruin me, should my husband ever come to know it." "That he never shall; they shall be destroyed.

If I die for it, they shall be destroyed." "Ah, me," she said; "had ever liege lady so true a knight?
Basil, how shall I thank you ?" "The pleasure of serving you will be thanks enough," he replied.
"Ah, generous knight, noble knight, who shall say true chivalry is dead ?" And she praised him, she flattered him, she thanked him until the slight doubt that had occurred to him died away and he was ashamed of it.
He thought of nothing but obeying her.

It was sadly against his high English spirit to steal into a man's room and take from it; he would have preferred fighting until one or the other lay dead.

But she had said nay, and it could not be.