I must accompany you to town.

Permit it, I beg.
You shall not be worried to talk.' 'No; I came alone and return alone.' 'Fasting and unprotected! Are you determined to take away the worst impression of us?
Do not refuse me this favour.' 'As to fasting, I could not eat: and unprotected no woman is in England, if she is a third-class traveller.

That is my experience of the class; and I shall return among my natural protectors--the most unselfishly chivalrous to women in the whole world.' He had set his heart on going with her, and he attempted eloquence in pleading, but that exposed him to her humour; he was tripped.
'It is not denied that you belong to the knightly class,' she said; 'and it is not necessary that you should wear armour and plumes to proclaim it; and your appearance would be ample protection from the drunken sailors travelling, you say, on this line; and I may be deplorably mistaken in imagining that I could tame them.

But your knightliness is due elsewhere; and I commit myself to the fortune of war.

It is a battle for women everywhere; under the most favourable conditions among my dear common English.