'All for love,
and the world well lost,' is to be her motto for the future. She is in
love with Hugh, and Hugh she must have. The spoiled baby is tired of all
its old toys, and wants a new one."
"And she married this masked man, and never saw him? That is odd."
"The whole affair is excessively odd. You know how impatient she
naturally is. She grew desperate in her confinement in a few days, and
was ready to sell her birthright for a mess of pottage--ready to
sacrifice her freedom in one way for her freedom in another. She had the
man's promise that he would return her to her friends a week after she
became his wife. She married him, and he kept his promise."
"And he never let her see his face?"
"Never! and she can not even suspect who it is. He wore a long,
disguising cloak that concealed his figure, false beard and hair, and
spoke only French. But she hopes it may be Hugh Ingelow. What do you
think?"
"That is not Hugh Ingelow. The fellow hasn't energy enough to entrap a
fly."
"Sardonyx, then?"
"Sardonyx is too cautious. He knows too much of the law to run his head
into the lion's jaws.
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