He has compromised our safety.

Nay, he has sold us to our enemies, and nothing shall save him." "If this is so," replied Viviana, "how much better would it be to employ the time now left in providing for your safety, than in contriving means of vengeance upon one, who will be sufficiently punished for his baseness by his own conscience.

Even if you destroy him, you will not add to your own security, while you will commit a foul and needless crime, equal, if not exceeding in atrocity that you seek to punish." "Viviana," replied Fawkes, in an angry tone, "in an evil hour, I consented to your accompanying me.

I now repent my acquiescence.

But, having passed my word, I cannot retract.