“I have nothing to hide from you, gentlemen,” said he. “If I shot the man he had his shot at me, and there’s no murder in that. But if you think I could have hurt that woman, then you don’t know either me or her. I tell you there was never a man in this world loved a woman more than I loved her. I had a right to her. She was pledged to me years ago. Who was this Englishman that he should come between us? I tell you that I had the first right to her, and that I was only claiming my own.”

在这句She was pledged to me years ago. 

为什么是she was pledged to me,而不是she pledged to me ? 

原译：几年前，她也对我发过誓嫁给我。

另外，在Who was this Englishman that he should come between us? 中的should是什么用法，何意？

谢谢老师！