“No! Each one of my order is sworn, by awful vow, to protect the traveler, the poor, the weak and woman with our last drop of blood! If we two were all alone here and one of our lives must be forfeited to save the other’s, mine would joy to go first.”
“Words are cheap, and thou can’st use them finely, knight.”
“Thou knowst, maiden, to what that cross alludes.”
“The Nazarene Imposter!”
“His followers revere Him?”
“Like madmen, they follow their phantom!”
“Didst ever hear of one wearing that sign, being untrue to it?”
“No, it’s their dread black-art.”
“Wouldst thou trust me if I swore by it?”