"You may attain the second part of your scheme, I admit, but the first seems to be difficult." "Is it?
We shall see!" Capella flourished his papers and began a passionate avowal of the "treachery" practised on him in the matter of Margaret's parentage, ending by saying: "That woman's mother was the affianced bride of my father.

She deceived him basely.

On his death-bed he made me vow my lifelong hatred of her betrayer and all his descendants.

To you, a cold-blooded Englishman, that perhaps means nothing.

To me it is sacred, imperishable, dearer than life.
And to think that I have been tricked into a marriage with the daughter of the man who was my father's enemy.