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"Faith, Madame! " said Sir Andrew, seeing that Marguerite seemed desirous to call her surly host back again, "I think we'd better leave him alone. We shall not get anything more out of him, and we might arouse his suspicions. One never knows what spies may be lurking around these Godforsaken places. "
"What care I? " she replied lightly, "now I know that my husband is safe, and that I shall see him almost directly! "