"I did not find in you this solicitude in the hills." "Unhappiness," he sighed, "makes most men law-less.

I should be even now as bad, were I not sure of the sympathy you feel for me." She looked at him with large disdain.
"Does not this woman treat you well ?" she asked with the first glimmer of sarcasm in her eyes.
"Her displeasure in me is that I do not make her a queen; yours, however, that I can not save this doomed nation! Her ambitions are for herself; yours are for me.

Which waketh the response in my heart, lady ?" "What have I lived for ?" she burst out.

"For what was I brought up and schooled?
For what have I sacrificed all the light and desirable things of my youth, but for--" "Nay! Do not show me, yet, that you are only bent on being queen!" he exclaimed.
"I care for nothing but the rescue of Judea!" she cried passionately.
"There is nothing left to me but that!" "Then your ambitions are still for me.

Alas, that the Messiah has come and gone!" It was his first reference to the great calamity he had told to her a short time before.