"Somewhat, but not half so lovely."
"Do you think you could have loved her so well?"
"No, indeed; for I will vow by sword and spear that there is no woman in the world so charming as you."
"I fear that the Lady Lioness loves you, and that her heart will be broken."
"How could she? She saw so little of me."
"I know she loves you; she has told me so. I bid you to forget me and make her happy."
"That I can never do. You do not love me, or you could not say this."
"You are my heart's desire. But I feel deeply for the Lady Lioness, whose love I know. If you cannot love her alone, you may love us both together. I grant you this privilege."
"I will not accept it," said Gareth, looking strangely at her smiling countenance. "I love but you; my heart can hold no more."
"You blind fellow," she answered, with a merry laugh, "you looked not at the Lady Lioness closely, or you would not so easily forget your troth plight. Know, sirrah, that I am the lady of the Castle Dangerous, that my name is Lioness, and that I am she whom you have so lightly thrown aside for the love of a strange lady."