“I don’t like it. We have no right to ask anything of this kind of you.”
“You must do what I ask, please.”
“No, no. I would rather run the risk of arrest myself.”
“That would do no good now. He has all this against me just the same.”
“You can leave the city. Besides, if I agree to do what he——”
“We shall quarrel if you say that again. And I hope we are too good friends for that.”
She placed her hand on my arm and looked earnestly in my eyes. “You don’t know how this tries me.”
“It is for Ladislas’ sake,” I said steadily.
She bit her lip and dropped her eyes. “I would rather anything than this,” she murmured hesitatingly. There was a pause full of embarrassment to me; then, rather to my surprise, she looked up with a smile: “I had forgotten. I agree,” she said.
Her sudden change of manner puzzled me.