Why ?" she said.
"But they may kill you there.

And our children will perish." "Life will be merciful to me.

But even if they should perish--" And this was said by her, my wife--a woman with whom I had lived for ten years.

But yesterday she had known nothing except our children, and had been filled with fear for them; but yesterday she had caught with terror the stern symptoms of the future.

What had come over her?
Yesterday--but I, too, forgot everything that was yesterday.
"Do you want to go with me ?" "Do not be angry"-- she thought that I was afraid, angry--"Don't be angry.