Amazing truth! She remembered the piety and the _sin_ of David, when he stole the wife of Uriah, and betrayed that loyal servant and brave soldier to a treacherous and bloody death! She remembered the loyalty and the _treason_ of that chivalrous young Scottish prince who headed a fratricidal rebellion, in which his father and his king was slain, and who, as James IV., lived a life of remorse and penance, until, in his turn, he was slain on the fatal field of Flodden.

She thought of these, and other instances, in which it might seem as if an angel and a devil lived together, animating one man's body.
This would, of course, produce inconsistency of conduct, insanity of mind.
But among all the harrowing thoughts that hurried through her tortured mind, one feeling was predominant--the necessity of instant flight.

There was no other cause for her to pursue.

The bridal train was awaiting her down stairs.

Soon they would send to summon her again.