You shall be safe forever.

And if Don John tries to enter here to-night, I will kill him on the threshold.

I swear that I will." He ceased speaking, turned, and began to walk up and down the small room, his spurs and sword clanking heavily at every step.

He had folded his arms, and his head was bent low.
A look of horror and fear had slowly risen in Dolores' face, for she knew her father, and that he kept his word at every risk.

She knew also that the King held him in very high esteem, and was as firmly opposed to her marriage as Mendoza himself, and therefore ready to help him to do what he wished.