“Still you expect me to believe in them?”
“Yes; and when you are inclined to doubt, because of the humble instrument of this success, please to remember that a mouse once freed a lion from a net, and a goose saved imperial Rome! and think that poor Annella Wilder may not have boasted vainly when she promised to deliver Eudora Leaton from death! And so, if you really do love Eudora, and desire her deliverance, you will take no step to hinder my plans! Nay, you must promise me to take none!”
“You ask much of me, Annella!”
“Not more than you will grant for Eudora’s sake.”
“But your plans are totally inexplicable; and your object, by your own single act to set the prisoner free and safe outside the prison walls, and make all the world believe that she has perished, seems quite impossible of attainment.”
“I shall accomplish it.”
“It is a riddle to me.”
“Let it remain so for a few days longer. But I did not come here to propound or expound riddles; I came to tell you that as they have refused me admittance to Eudora until the evening before the appointed execution, it will be well to make some little change in our arrangements.”
“How?”
“Why, as I cannot get into the prison before Tuesday evening, of course I cannot get Eudora out before that time.”