" ...] "What would Sally Blake do if she saw the little king of France and Navarre ride into the church lane, filling it with his retinue, and heard the royal salute of twenty-one guns fired for him?" "She would be afraid of him." "But when he comes afoot, with that idiotic face, giving her such a good chance to bait him-how can she resist baiting him? Sally Blake is human." ...]."