"It is my opinion the fiddler David must have been an insipid sort of fellow; I like black Bothwell better: to my mind a man is nothing without a spice of the devil in him; and history may say what it will of James Hepburn, but I have a notion, he was just the sort of wild, fierce, bandit hero whom I could have consented to gift with my hand."
Engem csak az olyan férfi érdekel, akiben van valami ördögi is. Mondhat a történelem, amit akar, az én szememben Bothwell vad, tüzes, hős rablóvezér, akit boldogan megajándékoztam volna kezemmel.