“And when are you or I afraid of danger?”
Brilliana accepted this.
“Then I go with you.”
Instantly Evander paused.
“No, no,” he said.
Brilliana repeated his words.
“Why, when are you or I afraid of danger?”
There was a noise of running feet in the garden, and then Thoroughgood sped across the moat and into the room.
“Captain Halfman has been shot,” he gasped.
“Oh, by whom?” Brilliana wailed, her eyes wide with horror.