“Nay—”
“Nay, but is she?”
“I love her whom I have ever loved—whom I shall love till death is with me—and ’tis thee.”
“Ah! then he did not love her. Then I will love him better than ever—better than ever. Yet tell me, if thou didst not love her, why didst thou follow her?”
“Her life was in danger.”
“Whose life, love? Whose?”
“The queen’s; she was the queen.”
“The queen!”
“A moment more, and she would have been doomed to the scaffold.”
“Then—then thou dost love me?”