Allow me to go alone to my tete-a-tete with madame." "What he said, what passed, he never could repeat; but he came back graver than he went.

However, the point was gained; Madame de Crequy withdrew her prohibition, and had given him leave to tell Clement as much.
"'But she is an old Cassandra,' said he.

'Don't let the lad be much with her; her talk would destroy the courage of the bravest man; she is so given over to superstition.' Something that she had said had touched a chord in my lord's nature which he inherited from his Scotch ancestors.
Long afterwards, I heard what this was.

Medlicott told me.
"However, my lord shook off all fancies that told against the fulfilment of Clement's wishes.

All that afternoon we three sat together, planning; and Monkshaven passed in and out, executing our commissions, and preparing everything.