“I am not alone.”
“No?”
“I have friends near at hand.”
“They should be with you.”
“If I cry out, they will come.”
“And then—what?”
“I failed to stab you in the breast; they will strike at your back.”
“Brave friends! Why should they do so? What have I done to make myself the enemy of you and your friends?”
“You know. Why do you ask?”
“But I do not know, and that is why I ask. Twice you have tried to kill me to-night, and——”