"You'll be comfortable in here," he said cheerily. "At least there are no snakes. I can promise you that."
He waited for her to say something, expecting that she would be pleased.
"It's very nice," she said hesitatingly. "Only——"
"Only what?" he demanded in a tone of disappointment.
"It's too bad to have taken so much pains for so short a time," she said.
He laughed carelessly.
"So short a time?" he echoed. Almost mockingly he asked: "Do you expect to leave here so soon?"
"As soon as I can—you may depend upon that!" she replied determinedly, almost ready to cry.
His indifference angered her. She thought it brutal when he knew how unhappy and miserable she was and how anxious to get back to her family. At that moment she hated him.
"Ah, that's just it!" he exclaimed, with a gesture of impatience. "As soon as you can! But you can't! We're prisoners here—in prison just as securely as though we were behind iron bars. We can't get away."