'Twould not be difficult.

Come upon him unawares, say, and strike him.

That should force a fight." "Tusk, fool! He's all empanoplied in virtue where you are concerned.
He'd use the matter of your affair with Caryll as a reason not to meet you, whatever you might do, and he'd set his grooms to punish any indignity you might put upon him." "He durst not." "Pooh! The town would all approve him in it since your running Caryll through the back.

What a fool you were, Charles." He turned away, hanging his head, full conscious, and with no little bitterness, of how great had been his folly.
"Salvation may lie for you in the same source that has brought you to the present pass--this man Caryll," said the countess presently.

"I suspect him more than ever of being a Jacobite agent." "I know him to be such." "You know it ?" "All but; and Green is assured of it, too." He proceeded to tell her what he knew.