glad to see you.'

'I doubt it, Dorothy. He and my father, as I am given to understand,
think so differently in respect of affairs now pending betwixt the
parliament and the king, that--'

'It were more becoming, Richard, if the door of your lips opened to
the king first, and let the parliament follow.'

'Well said!' returned the youth with a smile. 'But let it be my
excuse that I speak as I am wont to hear.'

The girl's hand had lain quiet in that of the youth, but now it
started from it like a scared bird. She stepped two paces back, and
drew herself up.

'And you, Richard?' she said, interrogatively.

'What would you ask, Dorothy?' returned the youth, taking a step
nearer, to which she responded by another backward ere she replied.

'I would know whom you choose to serve--whether God or Satan;
whether you are of those who would set at nought the laws of the
land----'

'Insist on their fulfilment, they say, by king as well as people'
interrupted Richard.

'They would tear their mother in pieces----'