I doubt not that you would preserve the secret; but you would perhaps mention it to your father, and it were best that it were known to none." The girls were silent for a minute.
"Sir," the elder said, after exchanging a word or two with her sister, "we would ask a boon of you.

The successes in a war are not always on one side.

My sister and I will think often of one who has so greatly befriended us; and were you, by any accident of war, to fall into the Welsh hands, and should evil befall you, it would be a deep grief to us.

We pray you then, sir, to accept this little gold necklet.

Its value is small, indeed, but it was given to me when a child by my father.