I tell you only the incontestable fact, and you may make out of it whatever you can.

I shall again in the course of this history have occasion to speak of Dorothy's strange power, and how it was exerted over no less a person than Queen Elizabeth.
"Ask Malcolm," repeated the girl, leaning coaxingly upon her father's breast.

But I was saved from uttering the lie I was willing to tell; for, in place of asking me, as his daughter had desired, Sir George demanded excitedly of Dorothy, "What have you in your pocket that strikes against my knee ?" "Mother of Heaven!" exclaimed Dorothy in a whisper, quickly stepping back from her father and slowly lifting her skirt while she reached toward her pocket.

Her manner was that of one almost bereft of consciousness by sudden fright, and an expression of helplessness came over her face which filled my heart with pity.

She stood during a long tedious moment holding with one hand the uplifted skirt, while with the other she clutched the key in her pocket.
"What have you in your pocket ?" demanded Sir George with a terrible oath.
"Bring it out, girl.