"Yes——"
"You travel as my wife, the wife of a German officer going to Vienna for medical advice——"
She flinched a little, but his air of abstraction reassured her.
"Do you agree?"
"Yes."
"You have friends in Vienna. You must not see them. Have I your word?"
"I have no wish but to help you."
He examined her keenly.
"I regret that the terms of our contract must be more explicit."
"In what?"