I should not have deserted you had I not felt that my first duty was to extricate Lady Madge from the disagreeable situation.

We must hasten away from here, or the mad rabble will follow us." "Right you are, my hearty," returned Stanley, slapping me on the shoulder.
"Of course you had to get the wench away.

Where do you go?
We will bear you company." I longed to pay the fellow for his help by knocking him down; but the possibilities of trouble ahead of us were already too great, and I forced myself to be content with the prowess already achieved.
"But you have not told me what brought you into the broil," asked his Lordship, as we walked toward the inn.
"Sir Malcolm and I were walking out to see the town and--" "To see the town?
By gad, that's good, Cousin Madge.

How much of it did you see?
You are as blind as an owl at noon," answered his Lordship.
"Alas! I am blind," returned Madge, clinging closely to me, and shrinking from her cousin's terrible jest.

I could not think of anything sufficiently holy and sacred upon which to vow my vengeance against this fellow, if the time should ever come when I dared take it.
"Are you alone with this--this gentleman ?" asked his Lordship, grasping Madge by the arm.
"No," returned Madge, "Dorothy is with us." "She is among the shops," I volunteered reluctantly.
"Dorothy?
Dorothy Vernon?
By gad, Tod, we are in luck.