"And you let me lower you into the river without telling me!" I was amazed by the sheer bravery of her act.
"There was nothing else to do," she said simply. "Had I told you, you would not have lowered me, and we both should have been recaptured. I do not see even now how you got down before they seized you."
"I dived," I explained.
"You jumped from the top of that castle? It is incredible!"
"You do not come from a land where there is much water," I commented with a laugh.
"What makes you think so?"
"If you did you would have seen enough diving to know that mine was nothing extraordinary."
"My country is in a mountainous district," she admitted, "where the streams are torrents and there is little swimming."
"And where is that?" I asked.
"Oh, it is very far," she replied. "I do not even know where."