"I would rather go."
"You might as well tell the truth when you are about it. You are breaking your heart for him."
"If he were to be condemned, and—executed, I should break my heart. I could never appear bright before the world again."
"That is just what I told Plantagenet. I said I would go into mourning."
"And I should really mourn. And yet were he free to-morrow he would be no more to me than any other friend."
"Do you mean you would not marry him?"
"No;—I would not. Nor would he ask me. I will tell you what will be his lot in life,—if he escapes from the present danger."
"Of course he will escape. They don't really hang innocent men."
"Then he will become the husband of Lady Laura Kennedy."
"Poor fellow! If I believed that, I should think it cruel to help him escape from Newgate."