"As the leader of the Brotherhood?"
"Yes, the founder."
"He is proscribed in Russia and watched in France. Is that true?"
"All true."
"He gave up writing for this—to go about organizing and speaking? That's true, isn't it?"
"Quite true."
"How much do you know about the Brotherhood, Peter?"
"I belong to it."
He straightened as he spoke. An impulse of pride passed over him, and she read the betrayal in his kindling eyes and their widened pupils.
"Is there work for you?" she asked, "for men who don't speak and proselytize?"