“It means that Roland is in pursuit of you.”
“What does that matter? He cannot die by the hand of any of us.”
“But you, unhappy man, you can die by his!”
“Do you think I should care so very much if he killed me, Amélie?”
“Oh! even in my gloomiest moments I never thought of that.”
“So you think your brother is on the hunt for us?”
“I am sure of it.”
“What makes you so certain?”
“Because he swore over Sir John’s body, when he thought him dead, to avenge him.”
“If he had died,” exclaimed the young man, bitterly, “we should not be where we are, Amélie.”