"We are starting about four, it will be light by then, and I hate riding a horse hard."
Another pause, and then:
"You are very brave, aren't you, Victor?"
"Good Lord, no! Why?"
"Landsberg told us how you saved his life."
"The deuce he did! well, I must warn him not to tell anyone else, and I hope you will keep it dark."
"Of course if you wish it, but why so modest?"
"I'm not particularly so, but what I did was nothing much really, and it was in the heat of action."
"According to Boris, it was something very brave."
"Dangerous perhaps; but, as I did not realise the danger at the time, there is so much the less credit."