 When Antoinette de Mauban leaves the dungeon after caring for the  imprisoned king, Rupert bows to her and quotes a poem. Its an  abbreviated version from Sir Walter Scott (qv): "O woman! in our  hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as  the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish  wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!"