We should all be in the most deadly peril.

Lucille, I would have spared you this anxiety if I could, but your defiance made it necessary.

There was no other way of getting you away from England to-night except by telling you the truth." "Away from England to-night," she repeated vaguely.

"But I will not go.
It is impossible." "It is imperative," the Prince declared, with a sharp ring of authority in his tone.

"It is your own folly, for which you have to pay.