Another vigorous outburst. She didn't care about that. No one should be able to say she had run away in such a case; and so on.
"Now do listen to me a moment. I don't think anything of the sort. It's splendid of you, Nessa. But——"
"I can't leave you in the lurch, Jack, and I won't," she broke in.
"If there was the faintest use in your stopping, I wouldn't ask you to go. There isn't. On the contrary, it would make matters infinitely more awkward. It was getting awkward just now, and that's why I took that man out. I've told him that you take me for an Englishman, and that Freibach knew us in London when we were engaged, and——"
"That's true."
"Yes; but he understands it differently—that I was in London as a German spy."
"He doesn't!"
"Indeed he does, and it altered his tune entirely. I said I wanted to get you off my hands as soon as possible——"
"Is that also true?" she interposed, with such a smile.
"At the present moment, yes."