"Save him." "At the cost of my own neck ?" quoth he.

"The price is high," he reminded her.

"Do you think that Richard is quite worth it ?" "And are you to save yourself at the cost of his ?" she counter-questioned.

"Are you capable of such a baseness ?" He looked at her thoughtfully a moment.

"You have not reflected," said he slowly, "that in this affair is involved more than mine or Richard's life.