It is in a small way yet, but you are playing a terrible game.

Do you realise what may happen ?" "In the hour that you ask a last proof I will give it," he said almost fiercely.

"I go now to meet an enemy." "If I should change that enemy into a friend--" she hinted.
"Then I should have no need of stratagem or force." "Force ?" she asked suggestively.

The drollery of it set her smiling.
"In a week I shall have five hundred men." "Dreamer!" she thought, and shook her head dubiously; but, glancing again at the ivory portrait, her mood changed.
"Au revoir," she said.

"Come and tell me about the mockers.