Perhaps you may escape by the back way, though there is little time for that.
Do you take Miss Wilton and try it, sir; leave me to hold these men in play." "Yes, yes, father," urged Katharine; "I know it must be Lord Dunmore's men and Johnson.

They know that you have come back from France, and now the man wants to take you prisoner.

You remember what the governor told you at Williamsburg, that he would make you rue the day you cast your lot in with the colonists and refused to assist him in the prosecution of his measures.

And you know we have been warned at least a dozen times about it.

Oh, what shall we do?
Do fly, and let me stay here and receive these men." "What! my daughter, do you think a Wilton has ever left his house to be defended by his guest and by a woman! Seymour, I believe, however, as an officer in the service of our country, your best course is to leave while there is yet time." "I will never leave you, sir; I will stay here with you and Mistress Katharine, and share whatever fate may have in store for you." But even as he spoke, the crowding footsteps of many men were heard at both entrances to the wide hall-way which ran through the house.