I choked him off my arms, but he slid down to my thigh, and I could not kick him off.

Had to practically drown him.

Even then he hung on." "Oh, don't speak about it," she said with a shudder, covering her face with her hands.

"It was too awful, and it might have been the end of you." Her voice broke a little.
"No, not an end," answered Barry, in a quiet voice.

"Not the end by a long way, not by a very long way." "What do you mean?
Oh, you are thinking of immortality, and all that," said Paula.