"I trust that no harm has come to her?"
"My friend and I were just in time to save her. Her husband lies there. He is a fiend, De Brissac."
"Very likely; but an angel might have grown bitter had he had the same treatment."
"We have him pinioned here. He has slain a man, and I have slain another."
"On my word, you have been busy."
"How did you know that we were here?"
"Nay, that is an unexpected pleasure."
"You did not come for us, then?"
"No; we came for the lady."
"And how did this fellow get hold of her?"