"See here! We have both been in hell, but that's over. Even otherwise, hell would not be hell to me if I were in it with you."
Thump! Thump! It was worse than ever. None the less she looked cool as a cucumber.
"The prospect is not very tempting. Besides, even if it were——" Again she paused, but this time without getting on with it.
He came toward her. "Even if it were what?"
"Temptation has its dangers. It may lead to captivity."
"And you fear that?"
"For you, yes."
"For me!" he exclaimed.
How it thumped! It thumped so that it hurt, yet spartanly she contrived to smile.
"You or any one. I was speaking generally. Then, too, you know, hell may not be all your fancy pictures it."