Then she turned her lovely face to the young man she had duped so cleverly.
"How do you like Rome ?" she asked, "I cannot talk commonplace to you, Lady Lisle," he said; "I have come from England purposely to see you," She looked slightly impatient.
"Ah," she replied.

"Of course I am very much obliged to you; but you must have been terribly imprudent.

Could you not have managed without being discovered in that suspicious attitude?
I was so grievously distressed.

You are too quixotic--you seek needless dangers." That was the extent of her gratitude to the man who had saved her reputation, character, and fair fame.
"I did not compromise you," he said.

"I preferred imprisonment to that." "Yes; but it was quixotic; there was no need for anything of the kind." "I am very sorry to have erred from excess of zeal," he replied, sarcastically.