"Then you can call me in a moment if you should get frightened or need me?"
"You are good."
"You will not hesitate?"
"No."
"Then I shall feel that I am still near you. I will have a cab in waiting and on an emergency can reach here in twenty minutes. You could keep yourself barricaded until then?"
"Yes. But really there is no need. I—"
"You have n't wrestled with him. He is strong and—mad."
Still he hesitated. If it had been possible without compromise to her he would have remained downstairs. He could roll up in a rug and find all the sleep that he needed.
"See here," he exclaimed, as the sane solution to the whole difficulty, "why don't you let me take you and Marie to the Martha Washington?"
She placed her hand lightly upon his sleeve.