The horses are standing within a hundred yards of the house, and all the preparations for your flight are made.

If we leave now, we can do so without opposition.

The delay even of an hour may lead to discovery.' For answer she laughed behind her mask-laughed coldly and ironically.
'You go too fast, sir,' she said, her low clear voice matching the laugh and rousing a feeling almost of anger in my heart.

'I do not know you; or, rather, I know nothing of you which should entitle you to interfere in my affairs.

You are too quick to presume, sir.