Enough that the King commanded their services, and would rely on their devotion when occasion arose to call for it.

Young, well-bred, brave, and loyal, they asked no more: they were ready to prove their dutiful obedience, and prayed for a fight as the best and most exhilarating mode of showing it.
Thus the scene was shifted from Strelsau to the chateau of Tarlenheim and Castle of Zenda, which frowned at us across the valley.

I tried to shift my thoughts also, to forget my love, and to bend all my energies to the task before me.

It was to get the King out of the Castle alive.
Force was useless: in some trick lay the chance; and I had already an inkling of what we must do.

But I was terribly hampered by the publicity which attended my movements.