Her voice made him look up. It seemed to uplift his courage and his pride, and to rescue him from the foolish squalor of his surroundings.
"Don't worry about me, Nance. It comes of my own conceit. But why are you here?"
Her eyes shone angrily.
"Because, like you, I have been kidnapped."
"You, too!"
"Yes, and I know everything."
Jasper met De Rothan's eyes, and De Rothan smiled at him.
"If circumstances admitted it, my dear young people, I would leave you alone together. But——"
Nance ignored him.
"Jasper, it makes me burn with anger——"