This fellow would scale the stars, if he knew how to do it, by physical force alone." I grew impatient, and interrupted these remarks.
"Perhaps he is scaling the stars now," I said; "or at any rate he will do so if death can show him the way." Heliobas gave me a friendly glance.
"You also are growing courageous when you can speak to your physician thus abruptly," he observed quietly.

"Death has nothing to do with our friend as yet, I assure you.

Zara, you had better leave us.

Your face must not be the first for Ivan's eyes to rest upon.

You," nodding to me, "can stay." Zara pressed my hand gently as she passed me, and entered her studio, the door of which closed behind her, and I heard the key turn in the lock.