But so little do I oppose your liberty, that you are free to rejoin your political companions whenever you choose to do so on your own responsibility.

But I must first know from your own lips whether your sympathies are purely political--or a name for something else ?" She had alternately flushed and paled, although still keeping her scornful attitude as he went on, but there was no mistaking the genuineness of her vague wonderment at his concluding words.
"I don't understand you," she said, lifting her eyes to his in a moment of cold curiosity.

"What do you mean ?" "What do I mean?
What did Judge Beeswinger mean when he called Captain Pinckney a double traitor ?" he said roughly.
She sprang to her feet with flashing eyes.

"And you--YOU! dare to repeat the cowardly lie of a confessed spy.

This, then, is what you wished to tell me--this the insult for which you have kept me here; because you are incapable of understanding unselfish patriotism or devotion--even to your own cause--you dare to judge me by your own base, Yankee-trading standards.