As the two arrived at the chasm, she nodded to the opposite side.
"If you cleared that would it be a remarkable leap?"
Armitage surveyed the gap with his eye, looked behind him and studied the ground.
"Not especially, Miss Wellington, so far as distance is concerned." He had done his nineteen feet in the running broad jump.
"Ah, just so," broke in the Prince. "It is the condition which would follow a slip or mistake in judgment."
Anne shook her head impatiently at Koltsoff's obvious eagerness.
"I do not believe McCall thought of that; nervous systems vary in their intensity."
Some part of the situation Armitage grasped. It was clear that for some reason she had dared the Prince to make the jump and that he had declined. The ground upon which they were standing was a few feet above the rocks on the other side of the chasm and the three stood about a dozen feet from the mouth.
She turned to Armitage.
"Am I right, or do you share Prince Koltsoff's psychological views?"