She thanked him for the proffered escort.
'Say nothing of that,' said he; 'I owe you so much more than I can ever repay.'
'You owe me a debt, I know; yet it might be best adjusted by our forgetting—as if we had never known—each other.'
'Margarita, who that has seen and known you will ever forget you?' he asked, with truth in his voice and eye.
'Many, I have no doubt.'
Her manner was somewhat bitter and weary, and from under her long dark eyelashes she looked at him, from time to time, with a kind of passionate pain.
'One fact I shall never forget, at least—that you saved me from great and deadly peril, by your acumen and superior intelligence.'
'By my suspicion of Guebhard and general knowledge of his character, and of what he is capable—say, rather.'
'And thus you rendered my flight from Deligrad unnecessary.'
'Yes,' she replied curtly.