But if not, what would it matter, since Rome alone can decide the question, and long before that is done the fates of all of us will be settled." "Rome--or death," said Castell; and Inez read what he was afraid of in his eyes.
"Your Betty takes her chance," she replied slowly, "as many a one has done before her with less cause.

She is a woman with a mind as strong as her body.

Morella made her love him and promised to marry her.

Then he used her to steal your daughter, and she learned that she had been no more than a stalking-heifer, from behind which he would net the white swan.

Do you not think, therefore, that she has something to pay him back, she through whom her beloved mistress and cousin has been brought into all this trouble?
If she wins, she becomes the wife of a grandee of Spain, a marchioness; and if she loses, well, she has had her fling for a high stake, and perhaps her revenge.