But--" He shrugged his shoulders as if to say that her tears would count for nothing.
Hymbercourt's words took the heart out of me; and when he left us for a moment, I urged Max to leave Burgundy at once.
"I must see Yolanda and ask her to release me from my promise before I go," he said.
"You are surely not so weak as to allow a burgher girl to hold you ?" I asked.
"The girl does not hold me," he answered.

"I was so weak as to give my promise, and that holds me." "She will give you your release if you demand it," I suggested.
"If she does, I will go with you to-morrow.

It is time that we were out of Burgundy.

I will forego even my combat with Calli to get away.

I should not have given Yolanda my promise; but she is so persuasive, and I pity her, and--and, oh! Karl, I--the trouble is, I love her, and it is like death to part from her forever.