"None; you have broken it." .
"Good; hear then my wish. Liberate your serfs; it afflicts me as a free-born Englishwoman to own men and women. Let them serve you if they will, but not through force or fear. Can you grant this, my prince?"
"I do; the Stavosta is already gone, and they know I pardon them. What more, Sybil?"
"Come with me to England, that I may show my countrymen the brave barbarian I have tamed."
My eyes were full of happy tears, but the old tormenting spirit prompted the speech. Alexis frowned, then laughed, and answered, with a glimmer of his former imperious pride: "I might boast that I also had tamed a fiery spirit, but I am humble, and content myself with the knowledge that the proudest woman ever born has promised to love, honor, and - "
"Not obey you," I broke in with a kiss.
end.