"Might be," I said desperately. "But there's a wide abyss between the possible and the actual."
Still no sign; I had offended her—I might have known!
But I mustered courage to steal a sidelong glance at her.
She was smiling down at the water, and her eyes were very bright.
"Not always," she whispered. "Not always."
Transcriber's notes:
Variations in spelling have been left as in the original.
The following changes have been made to the text:
Page 33: "possibilty" corrected to "possibility" ("... precluding the possibility of anyone swinging down from above ...")
Page 183: "Cafe" corrected to "Café" ("At the Café Jourdain")
Page 268: "sat" corrected to "set" ("... and we set at once about the work of finding a vehicle.")
Page 280: erroneous chapter numbering corrected, for the chapter title "The Veil is Lifted" ("Chapter XVII" corrected to "Chapter XVIII")