16/18 Until I come you are to guard house and garden well. Your mistress is to be molested by no one." "Very well, sir." "One thing more. There was some talk yesterday of my taking her across the neck to the forest. When she awakes, tell her from me that I am sorry for her to lose her pleasure, but that now she could not go even were I here to take her." "There 's no danger from the Paspaheghs there," he muttered. |