If I mistake not, you and I, gentlemen, acknowledge but one sovereign ruler, King James." At these bold words, uttered in the calmest voice, the two captains caught their breath and stared at each other.

Captain Runacles was the first to recover.

He laughed incredulously.
"Your lordship appears to have forgotten Salisbury." Any other man would have winced at this taunt.

But the Earl of Marlborough met it with the face of a statue.
"Captain Runacles, I have neither forgotten it nor am likely to.
The remembrance of that affair has followed me night and day.
I cannot--even now that I am pardoned--rid myself of its horror.
I cannot eat; I cannot sleep.

I see my crime in its true light, and am appalled by its enormity.