And they will not suffer him to carry you off against your will.

Do you see?
Do you understand ?" "Yes, I see.

But must you fight ?" "Yes, dear, I must fight.

The duke will not trouble you again, I think, before the evening; and if you remember what I have told you, all will be well." So I tried to comfort her, believing as I did that no two French gentlemen would desire or dare to refuse her their protection against the duke.

But she was clinging to me now, in great distress that I must fight--and indeed I had rather have fought at another time myself--and in fresh terror of her mother's anger, seeing that I should not be there to bear it for her.
"For," she said, "we have had a terrible quarrel just before you came.