"I can bear no more," she cried, covering her face with trembling fingers.
I don't know what more she thought I was going to threaten to do. I knew of nothing more; so it was fortunate she stopped me. She was in truth so frightened that if I had threatened to have her hanged, I think she would have believed in my power to do it.
"Why do you seek to ruin me? What have I done to make you my enemy?" she asked at length.
"I do not seek to ruin you, and I will be your friend and not your enemy, if you trust instead of deceiving me. I will save you from Count Gustav's threats."
"How can you?"
"What matters to you how, so long as I do it?"
"He knows all that you know."
"What, that you are here to betray the leaders of the Hungarian national movement to your French employers and their Russian allies?"
"Nom de Dieu, but how I am afraid of you?" she cried.
"If I tell him that how will it fare with you?"