Does Captain Grant also suspect my identity ?" "I think not--not yet, at least, for if he did you would be under arrest.
But there are others here who would recognize you just as I have.

There is no mystery about it.

I was in Philadelphia when the Continental troops were here, and you were pointed out to me then.

No, we have never met, yet I was sure I recognized you this afternoon." "I was pointed out to you by whom ?" "My brother--my twin brother on the staff of General Lee." "Did you not inform me your family were loyalists ?" "Yes; it is true," earnestly, her foot tapping the floor, as though annoyed at such persistent questioning.

"I have a father and brother in the King's service--but one is a renegade, and I--I--" "You are what ?" "I am merely a woman, sir, unable to determine whether to finally become loyalist or rebel." I looked gravely into her eyes until they fell, veiling their revelation of truth behind long lashes.
"Mistress Mortimer," I murmured, bending so close to her pink ear, I felt the soft touch of her hair on my lips, "you dissemble so charmingly as to even puzzle me.