"Had I thought to find you in this mind, I had warned him myself;" said she.
"Ah! Why did you not ?" "That the chance of doing so might be yours.

That you might thus repay him the debt in which you stand." "Diana, I can't!" The words broke from her in a sob.
But whatever her interest in Mr.Wilding for her own sake, Diana's prime intent was the thwarting Sir Rowland Blake.

If Wilding were warned of what manner of feast was spread at Newlington's, Sir Rowland would be indeed undone.
"You think of Richard," she exclaimed, "and you know that Richard is to have no active part in the affair--that he will run no risk.

They have assigned him but a sentry duty that he may warn Blake and his followers if any danger threatens them." "It is not of Richard's life I am thinking, but of his honour, of his trust in me.

To warn Mr.Wilding were...