“I overheard your warning,” she said with a deadly stare.
“Really?”
Ilse stretched out her bare arm, palm upward, and closed the fingers tightly:
“I hold your life in my hand. I have only to speak. Do you understand?”
“No.”
“You are lying. You do understand. You take double wages; but it is not France you betray! Nor Russia!”
“Are you insane?”
“Almost. Where do you carry them?”
“What?”
“Answer quickly. Where? I tell you, I’ll expose you in another moment if you don’t answer me! Speak quickly!”