'I belong to the Islands no less than you.'
Privately she thought,—
'If you knew how little I cared about the Islands!'
He stared at her, turning her words over in his mind. He was as reckless as she, but conscientiously he suggested,—
'There may be danger.'
'I am not really a coward, only in the unimportant things. And you said yourself that they could never invade the island,' she added with complete confidence in his statement.
He dreamt aloud,—
'I have only just found her. This is Herakleion! She might, who knows? be of use to Aphros.'
She wondered which consideration weighed most heavily with him.