Listen, Heda, either you make up your mind to marry me at once and arrange that this young gentleman, who as a doctor I assure you is now quite fit to travel without injury to his health, leaves this house to-morrow with the spy Quatermain--you might lend him the Cape cart to go in--or I start with the proofs to lay a charge of murder against your father.

I give you till to-morrow morning to have a family council to think it over.
Good-night." "Good-night," I answered as he passed me, "and please be careful that none of us see your face again before to-morrow morning.

As you may happen to have heard, my native name means Watcher-by-Night," and I looked at the revolver in my hand.
When he had vanished I remarked in as cheerful voice as I could command, that I thought it was bedtime, and as nobody stirred, added, "Don't be afraid, young lady.

If you feel lonely, you must tell that stout maid of yours to sleep in your room.

Also, as the night is so hot I shall take my nap on the stoep, there, just opposite your window.