"
She held forth her hand, which Iskander took and involuntarily pressed.
"Noble lady," he said, "my skill is a mere pretence to enter these
walls. The only talisman I bear with me is a message from your
friends."
"Indeed!" said Iduna, in an agitated tone.
"Restrain yourself, noble lady," said Iskander, interposing, "restrain
yourself. Were you any other but the daughter of Hunniades I would not
have ventured upon this perilous exploit. But I know that the Lady
Iduna has inherited something more than the name of her great ancestors
-- their heroic soul. If ever there were a moment in her life in which
it behoved her to exert all her energies, that moment has arrived. The
physician who addresses her, and his attendant who waits at hand, are
two of the Lady Iduna's most devoted friends. There is nothing that
they will not hazard, to effect her delivery; and they have matured a
plan of escape which they are sanguine must succeed. Yet its
completion will require, on her part, great anxiety of mind, greater
exertion of body, danger, fatigue, privation.
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