"Oh, it wasn't your fault," she answered.

"We must make the best we can of it." He bent forward so that he could see into her eyes.
"Tell me," he said.

There was a note of fierce exultation in his voice.
"I'll promise never to speak of it again.

If I had been a free man, could I have won you ?" She had risen while he was speaking.

She moved to him and laid her hands upon his shoulders.
"Will you serve me and fight for me against all my enemies ?" she asked.
"So long as I live," he answered.
She glanced round.