"Thank Heaven it is not my master! What matters what the world says ?" "You owe more to the name and honor of your family than to the world," she said.
"Of that," he observed, "you must allow me to be the best judge." She bowed submissively.
"The dearest thing in life to me is the honor of my name, the honor of my race," said Lord Arleigh.

"It has never been tarnished and I pray Heaven that no stain may ever rest upon it.

I will be frank with you, Madaline, as you are with me, though I love you so dearly that my very life is bound up in yours.

I would not ask you to be my wife if I thought that in doing so I was bringing a shadow of dishonor on my race--if I thought that I was in even ever so slight a degree tarnishing my name; but I do not think so.

I speak to you frankly.