"Thank you, sweet preserver.

I shall see you again, I know; but it may be long, very long.

Will you keep this ring?
Show it to your father when he returns, and guard it carefully till we meet in the future.

Then you shall give it me once more." He slipped the ring on her finger and kissed it.
A moment later he stood in the courtyard beside Rupert's horse, where the others were waiting.
"Heavens!" said Hugh to Philip; "what's happened to Rupe ?" "Yes," echoed Vernon, "who's that in old Rupe's clothes ?" "Shut up!" Philip hissed, fixing them with a meaning glance.

"Say another word, and I'll flay you! That's Rupert Ommaney, and no one else, and I warn you to remember it." "Come along, Rupert," he cried cheerily, aloud to the stranger.