I can do such things at times, and why I do them who can tell?
Not I! Do you think that I care for that grim Highlander, who drinks my death in place of my health, who is of a nation that I dislike, and a party that is not mine ?" She shook her head.

"I do not know.

And yet you helped him." Haward left the window, and came and sat beside her.

"Yes, I helped him.

I am not sure, but I think I did it because, when first we met, he told me that he hated me, and meant the thing he said.