Give me the rope first.

Good! Here, Neb, you must know how to use this,--not too tight, but without leaving any play to the arms; take the knife out of his belt.

Now for the cloth, Miss Maclaire." "Please do not call me that!" "But you said it didn't make any difference what I called you." "I thought it didn't then, but it does now." "Oh, I see; we are already on a new footing.

Yet I must call you something." She hesitated just long enough for him to notice it.

Either she had no substitute ready at hand, or else doubted the advisability of confiding her real name under present circumstances to one so nearly a stranger.
"You may call me Hope." "A name certainly of good omen," he returned.