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"My lady!" she cried; "my lady, John Thoroughgood rides up the avenue on a foundering horse!" Brilliana gave a great cry and went ghost-white. "Dear God, the letter! I had forgotten the letter!" Tiffany slipped from the room. Evander answered Brilliana's cry very calmly. "For the second, so had I. But, indeed, dear lady and friend, I know its terms." "You cannot be sure," Brilliana whispered.
"My lady," she cried, turning to Brilliana, "here comes Captain Halfman. Let us ask him his mind as to the Parliament man." Brilliana's face brightened. Here was company, and good company. She had believed him too busy to be seen so soon, for she had bade him see about raising a troop of volunteers in the village, and she turned round readily to greet her companion of the siege.
Brilliana's bright face took a swift look of gravity and she gave a little sigh. "The King's cause," she said, soberly, "might turn a child into a champion." The steady loyalty that made her words at once a psalm and a battle-cry bade Halfman's pulses tingle. Who could be found unfaithful where this fair maid was so faithful? Yet he remembered their isolation and the memory made him speak.
I snatched it from his fingers and made good my escape, gaining great praise from his Majesty when I laid the sacred silk at his feet." Brilliana's eyes swam with adoration. "Oh, my gallant friend!" she cried, and held out her hands to him. He caught them both and kissed them, whereat she instantly withdrew them and moved a little away. He followed her, speaking low, passionately.
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