I did consider you a good comrade, but I know now you are nothing but a whited sepulchre, a miserable hypocrite, a Judas betraying his master with a kiss.

Pah! go your way, you are unclean; nor ever hope again for word of fellowship from lips of honest men.

I shall die having performed my duty to the extent of my knowledge, but you as a dog, a traitor to your comrades, the betrayer of a woman in time of peril." "'Tis false, I say; I would yield life gladly to aid her." "Zounds! that sounds good from such lips.

Why, you have just refused much less." "Yonder is an emissary of the Evil One." "Keep your cowardly excuses to yourself.

Whatever the woman may be, she offers us a chance for our lives, provided only you will perform her will in sundry matters." He hesitated, his uncertain eyes shifting from her face to mine.
"What does this scarlet priestess of Baal require that I do ?" he questioned sullenly.
"Good lack, 'tis little enough even to satisfy your conscience.