"The danger?"
"The danger of discovery."
"Lewis—will you not tell them?"
"Tell them—"
"Is it not—oh, Lewis, is it not the only thing to do? Sin and suffering—yes, yes, the whole world sins and suffers! But oh, ignoble to sin and to reject the suffering!"
He stared at her incredulously. "Do you know, Jacqueline,—do you know what you are saying?"
"Will it be so hard?" she asked, and put out her arms to him. "It is right."
"Let me understand," he said. "When the mist cleared and I saw him lying there, I sat down upon a stone, and I said to myself, 'This is a strange land, and I am to eat the fruits thereof.' For a while I did not think of moving. You would have had me stay there as he stayed, watch there beside him until men came?"
She answered almost inaudibly, "It had been nobler."
"And then and there to have given myself up?"