It's our best chance, Edith.

I think it's our only one.' "My wife demurred strongly.

She wanted to go with me.

But I convinced her that it was better for her to stand guard without, prepared to help me if I were forced again into the open by what lay behind the rock.
"At the half-hour before moonrise we went into the inner court.

I took my place at the side of the grey rock.