"We shall not let you off," said she.
Wogan knew that she would not.

She was a girl who was never checked by any inconvenience her speech might cause.

Her tongue was a watchman's rattle, and she never spoke but she laughed to point the speech.
"Be frank," said the Countess; "it is a matter of the heart, and so proper food for women." "True," answered Wogan, lightly, "it is a matter of the heart, and in such matters can one be frank--even to oneself ?" Wogan was immediately puzzled by the curious look Lady Featherstone gave him.

The words were a mere excuse, yet she seemed to take them very seriously.

Her eyes sounded him.
"Yes," she said slowly; "are you frank, even to yourself ?" and she spoke as though a knowledge of the answer would make a task easier to her.
Wogan's speculations, however, were interrupted by the entrance of Princess Casimira, Sobieski's eldest daughter.