"I demand entrance in the King's name." "You cannot have it," she replied.

"It is my sleeping-chamber." "My duty allows me no alternative," rejoined the pursuivant, harshly.
"If you will not admit me quietly, I must use force." "Do you know to whom you offer this rudeness ?" returned Viviana.

"I am the daughter of Sir William Radcliffe." "I know it," replied the pursuivant; "but I am not exceeding my authority.

I hold a warrant for your father's arrest.

And, if he had not been from home, I should have carried him to prison along with the Jesuit priest whom, I suspect, is concealed within your chamber.