Here was surely more than at first might seem.
"Why so ?" he asked.
"For your own safety's sake," she answered him.
"You are oddly concerned for that, Ruth." "Concerned--not oddly." She paused an instant, swallowed hard, and then continued.

"I am concerned too for your honour, and there is no honour in following his banner.

He has crowned himself King, and so proved himself a self-seeker who came dissembled as the champion of a cause that he might delude poor ignorant folk into flocking to his standard and helping him to his ambitious ends." "You are wondrously well schooled," said he.

"Whose teachings do you recite me?
Sir Rowland Blake's ?" At another time the sneer might have cut her.

At the moment she was too intent upon gaining time.