"I am your good Knight always if I can help you, Elsie."
She flushed and turned her face aside that I might not see it.
"And you won't misunderstand?" she asked.
"I don't think I could misunderstand you, Elsie. I don't think anybody
could."
She came up closer.
"Well, it's this, Jack. Sit down here by me. I have no one I can
confide in but you. You know how kind you have always been to me. Ever
since I was a wee bairn in a strange land. I can't talk to Tammas about
it, but I feel there is something strange between Colonel Goff and me.
I feel that there is--"