[The Long Night by Stanley Weyman]@TWC D-Link bookThe Long Night CHAPTER XXIII 16/36
"God knows!" he answered.
"To save you--I think I would!" "You would not! You would not!" she repeated.
"Neither must you do this! Honour, faith, duty, all forbid it!" "And love ?" he cried. "And love!" she answered.
"For who would love dishonoured? Who would love in shame? No; go as you have come, and give the alarm! And do, and help! Go, as you have come! But how"-- with a startled look as she thought of the trap-door--"did you come ?" "By the Tertasse Gate," he explained.
"There were but two men on guard, and they were asleep.
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