It shall stand as a buckler between me and Mr.Wilding.

Trust me, I shall know how to use it." "But there is Blake to consider," he expostulated, growing angry.

"I am pledged to him." "Your first duty is to me..." "Tut!" he interrupted.

"Blake feels that he owes it to his loyalty to lay this letter before the Lord-Lieutenant, and, for that matter, so do I." "Sir Rowland would not cross my wishes in this, she answered him.
"Folly!" he cried, now thoroughly aroused.

"Give me that letter." "Nay, Richard," she answered, and waved him back.
But he advanced nevertheless.
"Give it me," he bade her, waxing fierce.