The least whisper of this, and, innocent as I am, I should be separated from him and disgraced.

It is from this I want you to save me.

If I were married to a noble, generous man, I should go to him at once, and tell him the truth.

If Lord Lisle knew it, he would use it as a pretext for separating himself from me.
Basil, you are my knight--you must save me; you must get those letters." "I will," he replied, "at any cost." "I tremble to think how much money, I, in my cowardly fear, have lent him.

He will want more and more, until he has drained a fortune, and I shall be no safer in the end.