I hope and I believe you will always trip joyously over the surface of the world. You are the personification of L'Allegro.
Miss Gryll. I do not know how that may be. But go now to the personification of La Penserosa. If you do not turn her into a brighter Allegro than I am, you may say I have no knowledge of woman's heart.
It was not long after this dialogue that Lord Curryfin found an opportunity of speaking to Miss Niphet alone. He said, 'I am charged with a duty, such as was sometimes imposed on knights in the old days of chivalry. A lady, who claims me as her captive by right, has ordered me to kneel at your feet, to obey your commands, and to wear your chains, if you please to impose them.'
Miss Niphet. To your kneeling I say, Rise; for your obedience, I have no commands; for chains, I have none to impose.
Lord Curryfin. You have imposed them, I wear them already, inextricably, indissolubly.
Miss Niphet. If I may say, with the witch in Thalaba,
Only she,
Who knit his bonds, can set him free,
I am prepared to unbind the bonds. Rise my lord, rise.
Lord Curryfin. I will rise if you give me your hand to lift me up.
Miss Niphet.. There it is. Now that it has helped you up, let it go.