“I have come to obtain the papers he holds.”
“I fear you will find him difficult to deal with after the police incident to-night. Police spies are to him an abomination. You had none yesterday. Why do you run such risks as to travel quite unattended?”
“I ran no risk. No one knew me,” I answered, rather embarrassed.
“I knew you.”
“Against what were you warning me?”
She read suspicion in the question.
“I am not a Nihilist; but Russia is Russia.”
“You know something of these Nihilists?”
“I know many of them to be reckless desperate men.”
“One has to take chances.”