She set a hand lightly upon his arm.
"You have chosen wisely, sir," she commended him, "however much against your inclinations." He looked with gloomy eyes upon her for whom he had made this sacrifice.
"I owed it to you--or thought I did," he said.
She did not understand.

"Your resolve delivered me from a horrible danger," she admitted.

And she shivered at the memory of it.

"But I do not understand why you should have hesitated when first it was proposed to you.

It is an honourable service." "King James's ?" he sneered.
"England's," she corrected him in reproof.