Whom have I to thank for this unlooked for deliverance ?" "I am Colonel Campbell, Baron de la Villar," Hector replied, "and have the honour to command his majesty's regiment of Poitou." "Your name is not French," the lady said.
"No, madam, I am a Scotchman." "Then," the lady said, speaking in English, "I must claim you as a countryman, for I am Irish.

My husband was an officer in the army of the Duke of Lorraine; he was killed in a skirmish four years ago, and a year later I married the Baron of Blenfoix, and was again widowed at the battle of Freiburg, where my husband, who had followed the fortunes of the Duke of Lorraine, his feudal lord, fell fighting by the side of General Merci.

This is my daughter Norah.

But I see that you are wounded," she went on as Hector bowed to the young lady.
"Not seriously, madam; but I feel somewhat faint from loss of blood, and will remove my helmet.

As it turned out," he went on somewhat faintly, "it was unfortunate that I did not put on my body armour; but I had not anticipated hard fighting, and preferred to ride without it.