He nodded, striving to say “yes.”
“You know your own risk?”
“Yes.”
“Her company is death for you both if you are taken.”
He stood up very straight. In what strange forms comes happiness to man!
XXI
LIKE HER ANCESTORS
A sense of insecurity, of impending trouble, seemed to weigh upon us all that evening—a physical depression, which the sea-wind brought with its flying scud, wetting the window-panes like fine rain.