But what else do you hope to accomplish ?" "The deliverance of my unfortunate lover, Dick Taverner, from the Fleet," she answered.
"But how is your marrying this wicked old usurer to effect your object ?" inquired Aveline.

"You may save me by the proposed stratagem; but you will destroy your own happiness, and all your lover's hopes." "No, no, I shall not," replied Gillian, hastily; "I can't tell how it's to be managed, but I am quite sure no harm will happen to me, and that Dick's restoration to liberty will be the reward of the service--if such it may be called--that I am about to render you.

He wrote to me so himself." "At least, tell me by whom you are engaged, and I can then judge of the probability of the rest happening in the way you anticipate ?" "Do not question me further, sweet mistress," replied the damsel, "for I am bound to secrecy.

But thus much I may declare--I am the agent of one, who, for some purposes of his own--be they what they may--is determined to counteract all Sir Francis's vile machinations against you, as well as those of his partner, Sir Giles Mompesson, against your lover, Sir Jocelyn Mounchensey.

Ah! you understand me now, I perceive, sweet mistress! You have been guarded by this unseen but watchful friend, during the whole of your confinement in this dreadful habitation; and he has kept an equal watch over your lover in the Fleet." "What! Is Sir Jocelyn a prisoner in the Fleet ?" exclaimed Aveline.