Sure it must be." "But how came you to be a soldier, and to serve the French ?" "I am Irish, you see, and I studied medicine.

Therefore--since it's a perverse nation we are--....

Oh, but it's a long story, and the Colonel will be expecting my return." She was not in that way to be defrauded of her entertainment.

If he would wait a moment they would ride back together.

She had but come to enquire of the Governor's health at her uncle's request.
So he waited, and so they rode back together to Colonel Bishop's house.
They rode very slowly, at a walking pace, and some whom they passed marvelled to see the doctor-slave on such apparently intimate terms with his owner's niece.