." "Yes.

There's Roger," he said gravely.

"And you've given him your word.

You can't draw back now." There was a note of sternness in the old man's voice--the sternness of a man who has a high creed of honour and who has always lived up to it, no matter what it cost.
"Remember, Nan, no Davenant was ever a coward in the face of difficulties.

They always pulled through somehow." "Or ran away--like Angele de Varincourt." "She only ran from one difficulty into the arms of a hundred others.
No wrong can be righted by another wrong." "Can any wrong ever be really righted ?" she demanded bitterly.
"We have to pay for our mistakes--each in our turn." He himself had paid to the uttermost farthing.