"
"And this was YOUR device?" asked the boy, admiringly.
"Ay, but any one might have devised it too," replied young Edith,
modestly. "Sure, 't was no great device to use a Scotch mist for
our safety, and 't were wiser to chance it than stay and be
stupidly murdered by Red Donald's men. And so it was, good
Robert, even as Mary did say, that we came forth unharmed, from
amidst them and fled here to King William's court, where we at
last are safe."
"Safe, say you, safe?" exclaimed the lad, impulsively. "Ay, as
safe as is a mouse's nest in a cat's ear--as safe as is a rabbit
in a ferret's hutch. But that I know you to be a brave and
dauntless maid, I should say to you----"
But, ere Edith could know what he would say, their conference was
rudely broken in upon. For a royal page, dashing up to the three,
with scant courtesy seized the arm of the elder girl, and said
hurriedly:
"Haste ye, haste ye, my lady! Our lord king is even now calling
for you to come before him in the banquet-hall."
Edith knew too well the rough manners of those dangerous days.
She freed herself from the grasp of the page, and said:
"Nay, that may I not, master page.
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