“We only want his signature, Madam.”
“He cannot hold a pen——”
“We must see that for ourselves,” replied the captain.
She drew herself up—
“I will not admit you to his chamber—he is too ill.”
She was desperate to forestall her husband’s inevitable refusal to sign.
But Captain Hoogewerf was not to be moved from his purpose.
“Madam,” he asked, “are not your children in the house?”
She shrank.
“What of it?”