She leaned forward eagerly as she answered: "Oh, yes, I do! I know what it means.... I, too, have been fighting against fearful odds!"
Jarvis looked at her sharply.
"There is no man to fight for you?"
"No man who dares."
"Oh, God! If there had only been a woman left for me to fight for!... But with my mother gone it was simply a hopeless, desperate determination to square the score at any cost, and then cry 'Quits!' and care nothing."
She drew back, studying the outline of his agile body, as he stood silhouetted against the moonlight.
"And are you alone?"
"Alone."
"And if you're caught," there was a curious eagerness in her low voice, "it means payment with your life?"
"Yes!"