"Nor can you regard it with more horror than myself." "I was sure of it," returned Dee.

"Nevertheless, I am glad to have my supposition confirmed from your own mouth." With this, he moved towards the door, but Viviana arrested his departure.
"Stay, reverend sir," she cried, with a look of great uneasiness; "if you are in possession of this dread secret, the lives of my companions are in your power.

You will not betray them.

Or, if you deem it your duty to reveal the plot to those endangered by it, you will give its contrivers timely warning." "Fear nothing," rejoined Dee.

"I cannot, were I so disposed, interfere with the fixed purposes of fate.