"You trust him so much?"
"Then if I succeed in buying him off, promise me that you will come home with me."
"If he takes money to leave me?"
"Yes."
"I should die. But I will promise if you want me to, because I know it never will happen. Just as I might promise to do anything, when I knew that I never would have to carry it out."
"Very well," I accepted the best I could get. "I will go find him."
"There is no need. He is coming here to our table as soon as he is free."
"I will not have you seen with him in this place."
"But I am going to stay here with him," she said.