When I was a monk, I failed in my duty scores of times, and am no whit the worse for it; rather the better, indeed, since it is owing to my failures that I am now a free man-at-arms, instead of being mewed up for life in a convent.

I shall not sleep one wink less, for having saved two of the prettiest girls I ever saw from having been shut up, for years, in a prison." "I am afraid your sense of duty is not strong, Roger." "I am afraid not, master, saving in the matter of doing my duty in face of an enemy." "You mean, Roger, that you will do your duty when it so pleases you, and not otherwise." "I expect that is the way with a good many of us," Roger laughed.

"I wonder whether Lord Grey had any idea that Glendower's daughters were in the house when we arrived there ?" "I know not, but I remember now that they had men searching, for some time, for signs of secret passages.

Whether it was from any idea that Glendower's daughters might be hidden away, I know not." "Truly it might have been," Roger said, "for I saw, among the spoil that was carried off when the others rode for Chirk, some silks and stuffs that looked like feminine garments.
"There is somebody coming across from the next post," he broke off.
"Doubtless it is the captain.

You would not tell him what we have done ?" "Certainly not, Roger.