“Is that so?”
“Yes, Colonel Petrosch has told me;” and I repeated the message he had authorised me to deliver.
“He told you to tell me that?”
“Yes, expressly and authoritatively.”
“Why?”
“I think that you should see quite clearly the wisdom of adopting the course which will help the army leaders and so serve the country.”
“You mean that I should play coward and run away. He set you to tempt me?”
“Is it a temptation?”
She thought earnestly and then exclaimed; “I cannot go. I cannot.”
It was not now “I will not;” and I was glad to note the difference.