Sure enough, when he rang the bell of her suite, Maggie herself admitted him to her sitting-room.

She was taut and pale, her look neither friendly nor unfriendly.
"Don't you know the risk you're running," she whispered when the door was closed--"coming here like this, in the open ?" "The time has come for risks, Maggie," he announced.
"But you were safe enough where you were.

Why take such risks ?" "For your sake." "My sake ?" "To take you away from these people you're tied up with.

Take you away now." At an earlier time this would have been a fuse to a detonation of defiance from her.

But now she said nothing at all, and that was something.
"Since I've come out into the open, everything's going to be in the open.