But I believe he'd go 'like a shot,' as you say, if you were to suggest it." It had the air, she knew, of a kind of condition made, and she had asked herself while she spoke if it wouldn't cause his arm to let her go.

The fact that it didn't suggested to her that she had made him, of a sudden, still more intensely think, think with such concentration that he could do but one thing at once.

And it was precisely as if the concentration had the next moment been proved in him.

He took a turn inconsistent with the superficial impression--a jump that made light of their approach to gravity and represented for her the need in him to gain time.

That she made out, was his drawback--that the warning from her had come to him, and had come to Charlotte, after all, too suddenly.