With all my heart I pity her." "But there is one thing your Highness does not know.

She runs our risks,--the risk of capture, the risk of the night, the storm, the snow, she a woman by nature timid and frail,--yet with never in all her life so great a reason for timidity, or so much frailty of health as now.

We venture our lives, but she ventures more." The mother bowed her head; Clementina looked fixedly at Wogan.
"Speak plainly, my friend," she said.

"There are no children here." "Madam, I need but quote to you the words her husband used.

For my part, I think that nobler words were never spoken, and with her whole heart she repeats them.