"Oh, if you believe in Satan you can believe anything."
"Can you look round the world you live in and doubt the Power of Evil?"
"Of the evil within us, no. 'Tis in ourselves, in our own hearts and minds the devil lives. We have to fight him there. Oh, I believe in that devil, the devil of many names. Envy, hatred, malice, jealousy, vanity, self-love, discontent. I know the fiend under most of his aliases. But our part is to be stronger than our own evil inclinations. I am not afraid of the devil."
"He speaks for you in that arrogant speech, and his name is pride."
"Well, perhaps I spoke with too much assurance; but I believe pride is a virtue in women, as courage is in men. Or, perhaps, pride in women is only courage by another name."
He did not reply for some moments; and then an irrepressible impulse made him touch on a perilous subject.
"Have you changed your mind about Lord Dunkeld?"
"As how, sir?" she asked, with a chilling air.
"Have you resolved to accept him as a husband? Surely you could not be for ever adamant against so noble a suitor."
"You are vastly impertinent, to repeat a question that I answered some time ago. No, sir, I shall never accept Lord Dunkeld, nor any other suitor—had he the highest rank in the kingdom."