To strangers I am Miss Norah O'More; to you, and to any I may love, I am plain Norah." "I don't think that you can be that to anyone, Norah." "Now I don't like that, Colonel Campbell.

That may do at the court of Louis XIV, but not at the chateau of la Villar, and if you are going to pay compliments I shall be stiff and unpleasant, and shall insist upon being addressed as Miss Norah O'More." "As I did not mean to compliment you, for I spoke but the truth, I shall not accept the penalty.

Now," he went on, "unromantic as it may sound, I own that I am hungry, and I am sure that my four followers are also, for we have ridden far and fast, and have not stopped, save to bait our horses and snatch a mouthful while they ate, since daybreak.

In truth the news we received made me sorely anxious, though I felt sure that MacIntosh could hold the chateau against any attack that was likely to be made on it.".