"What an experience this is!"
"Yes."
"How quietly you take it!"
"We're in for it. It would be no use to lose one's head."
"No, of course! But—oh, what a fight it is. I can scarcely believe that in a few days it must be over, that we shall know!"
"Here's the coffee. Drink it up."
She drank it. They went down in the lift. As they parted—for Claude had to go to Meroni—Charmian said:
"Adelaide Shiffney's still here."
"If she stays to the end we must find out what she thinks."
"Or—shall we leave it? After all—"