Once in his court, you would be safe until such time as you found opportunity to return to England.
This, then, is my plan--that you should escape from the ship at night as I can arrange." "And what is your payment," she asked, "who are a merchant knight ?" "My payment, lady, is--yourself.

In Cyprus we will be wed--oh! think before you answer.

At Damascus many dangers await you; with me you will find safety and a Christian husband who loves you well--so well that for your sake he is willing to lose his ship and, what is more, to break faith with Saladin, whose arm is long." "Have done," she said coldly.

"Sooner will I trust myself to an honest Saracen than to you, Sir Hugh, whose spurs, if you met your desert, should be hacked from your heels by scullions.

Yes, sooner would I take death for my lord than you, who for your own base ends devised the plot that brought my father to his murder and me to slavery.