"I hoped he would scare them. But what is to be the end of it all, Nance dear? Things cannot go on this way. Would it be possible to get me a boat and let me get over to Guernsey?"
"If you will wait a little time, that is what we must do, if the truth does not come out."
"And meanwhile you may be drowned in trying to keep me from starving."
"I shall not be drowned and you shall not starve," she said resolutely.
"I would sooner live on puffins' eggs than have you swim across that place. My heart goes right down into my feet when I think of it."
"There is no need. I am all right."
"The Sénéchal and the Seigneur could not stop them?"
"Mr. Le Pelley is in Guernsey still. The Sénéchal they would not listen to. But the truth will come out if only you will wait."
"If I get away, will you come to me, Nance? And all my life I will give to making you happy."
"Yes, I will come. But it will be sore leaving Sark. To a Sark-born there is no other place in the world like Sark."