There my followers will be awaiting us, and we can escort you to a place of safety.

It is fortunate that you are ordered to be apart from the rest; none therefore will mark you as you linger behind when the bell rings for vespers." Marjory was silent for some time.
"But, Sir Knight," she said, "whither am I to go?
for of all my friends not one, save the good priest, but is leagued against me." "I can take you either to the Bishop of Glasgow, who is a friend of the Bruce and whom I know well--he will, I am sure, take charge of you--or, if you will, lady, I can place you with my mother, who will receive you as a daughter." "But what," the girl said hesitatingly, "will people say at my running away from a convent with a young knight ?" "Let them say what they will," Archie said.

"All good Scots, when they know that you have been in prison here solely from the love of your country, will applaud the deed; and should you prefer it, the king will, I know, place you in charge of the wife of one of the nobles who adheres to him, and will give you his protection and countenance.

Think, lady, if you do not take this opportunity of gaining your freedom, it may never occur again, for if you are once shut up in your cell, as I heard threatened, nothing save an attack by force of arms, which would be sheer sacrilege, can rescue you from it.

Surely," he urged, as the girl still remained silent, "you can trust yourself with me.