And somehow, it chilled him.

It chilled him even as he wanted to reach out and gather her close in his arms, and pour his love into her ears, entreating her to tell him everything, to keep nothing back from him that might help in the fight he was going to make.
And then she said, "Jeems, if we should be caught by the Police--it would probably be quite soon, wouldn't it ?" "They won't catch us." "But our greatest danger of being caught is right now, isn't it ?" she insisted.
Kent took out his watch and leaned over to look at it in the fireglow.
"It is three o'clock," he said.

"Give me another day and night, Gray Goose, and the Police will never find us." For a moment or two more she was silent.

Then her hand reached out, and her fingers twined softly round his thumb again.

"Jeems--when we are safe--when we are sure the Police won't find us--I will tell you all that I know--about what happened in Kedsty's room.