“You wouldn’t have me. You shan’t have him. I can finish with him presently, and then I’ll finish with you.”
“There are the gendarmes,” she said.
Bibi splurged.
“Rubbish! We’re in the wilderness, wild man’s land. I can do what I please. That fellow got in my way, and I have kicked his belly in. Who’s to know if——”
She shuddered. She was looking at Paul, and suddenly she saw his hand move as though making a sign. Her eyes swept back to Bibi; he was watching her; he had not seen.
“You have beaten him; is that not enough?”
“If I get what I want for it.”
“Be reasonable.”
“Drop that knife,” he said; “you have still got it behind your back.”
She let it fall on the floor. She wanted to keep Bibi talking to hold him off.