"When will that be?"
"How can I tell?"
"Oh, heaven! he will be half crazed with anxiety!"
"Better that he should be half crazed with anxiety, than wholly crazed by despair. Lady, had we not removed you when we did, you would certainly be in the hands of the constables before this day is over, probably before this hour."
"How do you know this?"
"From information brought in by our spies."
"We came upon the Haunted Chapel by chance, in the dead of night. No one could have known so soon that we were there."
"No one did know it. The constables were coming there for us, but they would have found you, had we not brought you away with us. That was my doing. I made your removal the condition of my silence."
"Girl, who are you? I ask again; and why do you take this interest in me?"
"Lady, I am an outlaw like yourself, hunted like yourself, in peril like yourself, guiltless like yourself; the daughter, sister, companion of thieves. Yet, never will I become a thief, or the wife or the mother of one!"