I feel as helpless as Saul would have felt
with David's sling and stones."
"Are you as one fighting a Goliath?"
"I am," said I, not able now to speak lightly, and not daring to look at
her. Could any enterprise be more hopeless than the one my heart, against
all the strivings of sense and reason, was beginning to set me? Through
the open lattice I watched the flicker of lanterns in the yard, where the
horses were being upped and whoaed stablewards.
"You will favour me, sir, with your escort into supper," said Margaret.
This brought me to myself with a jerk. I closed the lattice, offered her
my arm, and we walked towards the guest-room where the Colonel was
awaiting us.
"I think you'd better revise your knowledge of the Scriptures, Master
Oliver," said she very quietly as I led her into the room.
"In what respect, Mistress Margaret?"
"You seem to have an imperfect recollection of the way in which Goliath
met his death. It's idle to say we're late, dad, when supper's not yet
served."
He exploded into words I did not understand. "It's all right, only
French," whispered Margaret mischievously.
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