There is danger--more danger here to you than to me--though, to me"-- the tears filled in her eyes as she spoke, and her head sunk down on her breast with an air of the saddest self-abandonment--"there is more than death." The youth again took her hand.

He understood too well the signification of her speech, and the sad sacrifice which it referred to; and an interest in her fate was awakened in his bosom, which made him for a moment forget himself and the gentle Edith of his own dreams.
"Command me, Miss Munro, though I peril my life in your behalf; say that I can serve you in anything, and trust me to obey." She shook her head mournfully, but without reply.

Again he pressed his services, which were still refused.

A little more firmly, however, she again urged his departure.
"My solicitations have no idle origin.

Believe me, you are in danger, and have but little time for delay.