She is not afraid of heroes! you are safe in Dumbarton, and why not bring her here also ?" "Not for worlds!" exclaimed the countess, thrown off her guard.

Murray looked at her with surprise.

It recalled her to self-possession, and she resumed: "So lovely a creature in this castle would be a dangerous magnet.

You must have known that it was the hope of obtaining her which attracted the Lord Soulis and Earl de Valence to Bothwell.

The whole castle rung with the quarrel of these two lords upon her account, when you so fortunately effected her escape.