For there were dangers and difficulties of several kinds.

In the first place it was advisable that even her father should be kept in ignorance of his terrible loss.

It was well known that he held her as the very core of his heart and that if he should hear of her death, he would be too much prostrated to be able to do the intricate and delicate work which he had undertaken.

Nay, more: he would never remain afar off, under the sad circumstances, but would straightway return, so as to be in the land where she lay.

Then suspicions would crop up, and the truth must shortly be known afield, with the inevitable result that the Land would become the very centre of a war of many nations.
In the second place, if the Turks were to know that the race of Vissarion was becoming extinct, this would encourage them to further aggression, which would become immediate should they find out that the Voivode was himself away.