I'm not seeking a compliment from you.

I see that you're sad.

You have been very kind to me, Simon.

You risked life and liberty to save me." "Well, who could do less?
Besides, I had given my promise to my lord your father." She made no reply, and I, desiring to warn her against every danger, related what had passed at the cottage, omitting only Monmouth's loudmouthed threats against myself.

At last, moved by some impulse of curiosity rather than anything higher, I repeated how the Duke had said that, sooner than lose her altogether, he would have married her, and how my Lord Carford had been still his humble servant in this project as in any other.