"Then you do not think, like some others, that we must retreat?"

"Eh? Don`t talk nonsense!" said a sergeant major.

"You are unjust, Lady Rowena," said the knight, biting his lips in some confusion, and speaking in a tone more natural to him than that of affected gallantry, which he had at first adopted; "yourself free from passion, you can allow no excuse for the frenzy of another, although caused by your own beauty."