But for a knight to go in the disguise of an infidel slave seems to me to be beyond all bounds." "If one is ready to give one's life for the Order, Sir John, surely one need not mind a few weeks' inconvenience.

I shall, at any rate, be no worse off than you were when serving as a Turkish slave." "Well, no, I don't know that you will," Sir John replied doubtfully.
"But that was from necessity, and not from choice; and it is, moreover, an accident we are all exposed to." "It is surely better to do a thing of one's own free will than because one is forced to do it, Sir John ?" The knight was silent.

He was a stout fighting man, but unused to argument.
"Well," he said, after a long pause, "I can only hope that it will turn out all right, and promise that if you are strangled in prison, I will see that every slave who had a hand in it shall be strung up.

I have told Kendall frankly that if I were in his place I would not permit you to try such a venture.

However, as I could think of no other plan by which there would be a chance of getting to the bottom of this matter, my words had no effect with him.