"It must not; and that it may not, you must go in," he said gravely.
"But you are out in it," said Elizabeth, who was possessed with an uncompromising spirit just then.
"I am out in it. Well?"
"Only — that I may venture —" she did not like to finish her sentence.
"What right have you to venture anything?"
"The same right that other people have."
"I risk nothing," said he gravely.
"I haven't much to risk."
"You may risk your life."
"My life!" said Elizabeth. "What does it signify! —" But she jumped up and ran into the house.