"Yes," I made answer.
"How came you here?"
"To deliver you—if I can."
For a moment she seemed too overwhelmed for further speech, but presently I saw that she conquered her astonishment, and I thought I saw that half-angry half-defiant look which I had detected when I first overtook her on the road outside Folkestone.
"Do you know you run great danger?" she asked.
"Perhaps," I replied, for somehow her presence seemed to make me slow of speech.
"Then what led you to enter these walls?"
"I have told you," I replied.
"But how could you gain entrance?"
"Another time I will tell you, but there is no time now. Once outside the town I can tell you concerning this and many other matters, but now your liberty is my chief concern."