I knew not what I said.
But it will indeed change all things for me if you do but come.

Then I shall have some one to speak with--some one with whom to laugh at their pitiful Court mummery, their fiasco of dignity.

You are not like these other beggarly Scots, my Lord Duke of Touraine." "They are brave men and loyal gentlemen," said the generous young Earl.

"They would die for me." "Nay, but so I declare would I," gaily cried the lady, glancing at his handsome head with a quick admiring regard.

"So would I--if I were a man.