Have you considered the terrible chances of this war?
Heaven knows what may happen.

He may be killed." "That's why I'm marrying him," she said.
There was a little pause.

For the moment I had nothing to say, as I was busily searching for her point of view.

Then, with pauses between each sentence, she went on:-- "He asked me two months ago, and again a month ago.

I told him to put such ideas out of his head.