Now that I am like to be a suspected person, I will no more go to her.

But tell her that, come what may, my heart will ever be hers, and that I will seek to remember her words to me.

I will strive to be faithful unto death." "I will tell her," answered Arthur, not unmoved.

"But we will not think or speak of death.

Whatever may be done elsewhere, we men at Oxford have always set our faces against any bitter persecution for conscience' sake.