"As safe here as anywhere," she heard him saying. "For the chance that led you here, thank whatever Gods may be."
"But I must find him!" she cried.
"Eh? Noll?—find Noll? Dear lady, small chance of that!"
"I must find him."
"He was to attend High Mass in the Cathedral—"
"Yes . . . with that woman. What help could such an one bring to him if—if—Oh, I must find him, I say!"
"The Cathedral," he repeated. "You are brave; let your own eyes look for it." He had withdrawn his arm.
"Yet I must search, and you shall search with me. You were his friend, I think?"
"Indeed, I even believed so. . . . I was thinking of you. . . .
It is almost certain death. Do you say that he is worth it?"
"Do you fear death?" she asked.