"You are singularly wary, fair sir," said the elder lady proudly, and with an air of pique.
"And your father fell——," began the younger in a tremulous voice, as if the young man's vehemence terrified her.
"He fell so many years ago that the interest of my debt of blood and vengeance——"
"Is, I doubt not, doubled!"
"Yea, madame, quadrupled; and I shall have it rendered back duly, every drop."
"Oh! say not so," said the young lady, shuddering. "Think of all you have escaped, and how, on that fatal night, kind Heaven spared you."
"To avenge my family feud on those who would have slain me."
"And you have been in France?" said the lady in the cloth-of-gold, to change the subject.
"Yes, madame."
"And came from thence with Nicholas de Villegaignon?"