"'Your voice is very sweet and very low,' I answered, quietly advancing. 'You seem subdued, but still startled.'
"'No--quite calm, and afraid of nothing,' she assured me.
"'Of nothing but your votary.'
"I bent a knee to the flags at her feet.
"'You see I am in a new world, Mr. Moore. I don't know myself; I don't know you. But rise. When you do so I feel troubled and disturbed.'

"'You seem subdued, but still startled.'
"'No - quite calm, and afraid of nothing,' she assured me.
"'Of nothing but your votary.' I knelt on the flagstones at her feet.
"'You see I am in a new world, Mr. Moore. I don't know myself; I don't know you. But rise. When you do that, I feel troubled.'
