"Why?"
"There may be an invasion."
She had lifted her head as he spoke. After a moment she sighed like a tired child, laid her head back on his arm and rested one slender hand on his shoulder.
It suddenly seemed to her that the world, which had been going very well with her, had halted, and was beginning to go the other way.
"Kervyn?"
"Yes?"
"You could take the papers when I am asleep, I suppose. I couldn't help it, could I?"
"That is one way," he said, smiling.
"What was the other?"