"I can't be without you, Simon.

Ah, 'tis so long since we were together," she whispered, and turned naughty eyes on Barbara.
Yet we might have come through without declared conflict, had not a thing befallen us at Canterbury that brought Nell into fresh temptation, and thereby broke the strained cords of amity.

The doings of the King at Dover had set the country in some stir; there was no love of the French, and less of the Pope; men were asking, and pretty loudly, why Madame came; she had been seen in Canterbury, the Duke of York had given a great entertainment there for her.

They did not know what I knew, but they were uneasy concerning the King's religion and their own.

Yet Nell must needs put her head well out of window as we drove in.