"So you won't give me your gazelle?" he whispered.
"No, certainly not, Mr. Jack," replied Sophia; "if you had saved my life, as Fritz saved my sister's, I should then have had the right to make you a present. But you know it is not my fault."
"Nor mine either," said Jack.
"Perhaps not; but if I had fallen into the sea, you would have allowed the sharks to swallow me, would you not?"
"I only wish we had been attacked by a hyena or a bear on our way to Waldeck."
"God be thanked, that we were not!"
"Well, but look here, Miss Sophia; let me paint the scene. You have fainted, as a matter of course, and fallen prostrate on the ground, insensible."
"That is likely enough, if we had encountered one of the animals you mention."
"Then I throw myself between you and the savage brute."
"Supposing you were not half a mile off at the time."