Wogan fixed the rope-ladder securely to the foot of the bed and drew the bed close to the window.

He left the lamp upon a chair and went back to the parlour and explained.
"Your Highness," he added, "there may be no cause for any alarm.

On the other hand, the Governor of Trent may have taken a leaf from my own book.

He may have it in mind to snatch your Highness out of Italy even as I did out of Austria; and of a truth it would be the easier undertaking.

Here are we five miles from the border and in a small tavern set apart from a small village, instead of in the thick of an armed town." "But we might start now," she said.