Yet I hoped that it might not be as I feared, or, at least, that the thing could be hidden.

It seems, though, that the saucy wench has made no secret of it.

Thus you are landed in this quarrel, and with a good swordsman." "I care nothing for the quarrel----" I began.
"Nay, but it is worse than you think.

For Lord Carford is the gentleman of whom I spoke, when I told you that Mistress Quinton had a noble suitor.

And he is high in her favour and higher yet in her father's.