"Take him first, in isolation." She paused for a full minute, with her chin on her hand and her elbow on the table.

Her brow gathered.

"Sebastian ?" she repeated.
"Sebastian ?--ah, there I might guess something.

Well, of course, having once begun this attempt, and being definitely committed, as it were, to a policy of killing us, he will go through to the bitter end, no matter how many other lives it may cost.

That is Sebastian's method." "You don't think, having once found out that I saw and recognised him, he would consider the game lost, and slink away to the coast again ?" "Sebastian?
Oh, no; that is the absolute antipodes of his type and temperament." "He will never give up because of a temporary check, you think ?" "No, never.