CHAPTER XI“I must know,” Angelica said, “in what danger my cousin lies, for I can have no peace till I do.”
Sir Oliver did not resent the words or manner of this address, which would have been unfitting from whom she pretended to be, and was not much better from whom she was as they both knew, for the sharp anxiety in her tone was easy for him to hear, and his reply was kinder than may be plain in the written word.
“Then you must know something I cannot tell, for there is nothing resolved. But I tell you all that I may when I say that the Grand Master is agreed that he will do nothing alone. There is Council called for the last hour of the day, when the Commanders will consider your cousin’s case.”
“Then he can be under no restraint till that hour?”
Sir Oliver frowned a little at a que
