"He would go to the stake, I believe, without flinching, were he taken and sent there straight.

But if put in prison, and kept there long, separated from his friends and teachers, and subjected to argument and persuasion and specious promises, well, I know not how he would stand that trial.

Kindness and flattery might win him over, where threats and cruelty failed." Freda's face was gravely intent.

She was conscious of a growing interest in and affection for Anthony Dalaber since his own fervent declaration of love towards herself.

She had given him no definite promise, but she felt that henceforth their lives must of necessity be more or less linked together.