“Nothing could be more serious in his eyes,” I said. “And you, what will you do?”
“Wait until to-morrow, that is all.” She spoke with a rather weary smile.
“That is not the courage that defied Bremenhof. The people may win in the impending struggle, and then everything will be changed.”
“They may,” she agreed, but with no hope in her voice.
“You don’t believe it?”
“There is always hope.”
“We may find another way. Nothing is impossible for such courage as you have shewn.”
“There is always one way open to me in the last resort.”
“You mean?”
She looked up steadily. “What should I mean but surrender?”