I would have died sooner.

It was only thou, sahiba, who could make me set aside my caste." "Let me pass!" She certainly was frightened now.

It dawned on her, as it had at once on him, that at the least commotion on his part or on hers a dozen Rangars would be likely to come running.

And just as he had done, she wondered what explanation she would give in that case, and who would be likely to believe it.

To have been caught going to the cell would have been one thing; to be caught in it would be another.