"To go with any one, of course," she said with sudden indifference. "If you'd been through half that I have and had a quarter of the suspense I've had to endure, you'd be glad too."
"I'm glad enough, as it is. I think this beastly climate is anything but healthy for either of us just now."
"Oh, to be free once more!" she cried with a deep, deep sigh of longing. "Do you know that more than once I've been on the point of risking everything and just bolting and chancing my luck."
"Which reminds me that I'd better tell you the spare wheels I've been thinking about, if these other tyres burst. I haven't had much chance of talking to you yet, you know."
"We had one interview," she reminded me, her eye dancing.
"We'll try to do a bit better this time. The best thing will be old von Gratzen's scheme, if it comes off."
"We should have to be together a long time, if it does."
"Rather rotten, eh? But I could bear it, I think, if you could."
"I should have to, naturally."
"We could discuss our old grievances, at the worst."