She heard his low orders to his men and watched them pass up the street with their rifles on their shoulders.
She opened the door and Socola entered, his face deathlike in its pallor.
"Why did he stay so long?"
"He has searched your room and found your cipher code—"
"And you have saved my life?"
"It was I who put it in peril—"
"No—I gave my life in willing sacrifice when the war began—"
"You are to leave," Jennie went on evenly—"leave at once—"
"Of course—"