But why do you ask ?" "Because there may be danger." "And how ?" "Many have an interest in stopping this marriage.

All the first men of the kingdom are bitterly against it.

If they could stop _us_, they would stop _it_, for to-night at least." "But I thought it was a secret ?" "There is no such thing at a court.

There is the dauphin, or the king's brother, either of them, or any of their friends, would be right glad that we should be in the Seine before we reach the archbishop's house this night.

But who is this ?" A burly figure had loomed up through the gloom on the path upon which they were going.