I am content so you be true." "True I shall ever be, sweetheart," he whispered fervently.

"Could I be less since you are sent to make me so ?" She looked at him again, and now she was smiling wistfully through her tears.
"And you will bear with Peter ?" she implored him.
"He shall have no power to anger me," he answered.

"I swear that too.

Do you know that but to-day he struck me ?" "Struck you?
You did not tell me that!" "My quarrel was not with him but with the rogue that sent him.

I laughed at the blow.