It is for my dream's sake, the dream which told me that by some noble act of yours you should save the lives of thousands.

Yet I am sure that you desire to escape, and plots are made to take you from me, though of these plots you say that you and your woman"-- and he looked darkly at Masouda--"know nothing.
But these men know, and it is right that you, for whose sake if not by whose command the thing was done, should mete out its reward, and that the blood of him whom you appoint, which is spilt for you, should be on your and no other head.

Now do my bidding." For a moment Rosamund stared at the boxes, then suddenly she closed her eyes, and taking them up at hazard, stretched out her arms, leaning forward over the edge of the dais.

Thereon, calmly enough the brethren took, each of them, the box that was nearest to him, that in Rosamund's left hand falling to Godwin and that in her right to Wulf.

Then she opened her eyes again, stood still, and watched.
"Cousin," said Godwin, "before we break this cord that is our chain of doom, know well that, whatever chances, we blame you not at all.