I am always thinking how wrong it is that you should be staying here risking your life for us instead of going home to those who love you.

I think sometimes Virginie and I ought to give ourselves up, and then you could go home." And Jeanne burst into tears.
"My dear Jeanne," Harry said soothingly, "do not worry yourself about me.

It would have been just as dangerous at the time your father was taken prisoner for me to have tried to escape from the country as it was to stay here--in fact I should say that it was a good deal more dangerous; and at present, as Robespierre's secretary, I am in no danger at all.

It is a little disagreeable certainly serving a man whom one regards in some respects as being a sort of wild beast; but at the same time, in his own house, I am bound to say, he is a very decent kind of man and not at all a bad fellow to get on with.
"As to what I have done for you, so far as I see I have done nothing beyond bringing you here in the first place, and coming to have a pleasant chat with you every evening.

Nor, with the best will in the world, have I been able to be of the slightest assistance to Marie.