"Was just in time to save a very foolish man from my Lord Rosmore. I can guess what happened. The one insults you, the other pretends to defend you and—"
"And my uncle wishes me to marry him; but that is not the trouble,
Martin."
"I should have called that trouble enough."
"But listen," said Barbara, "this news of Monmouth's landing distresses me for a very strange reason."
"Tell me," said Martin.
Barbara told him of the man who had come to her rescue at Newgate, and repeated all that Lord Rosmore had said of him.
"Do you think he can be such a man as that, Martin?"
"If Lord Rosmore knows him then—"
"If—but does he?"
"Lord Rosmore knows a great many scoundrels, I have been told. What was the name of this one?"