Fortunately, two days before the rupture of hostilities, she had received news enabling her to avoid being made prisoner in a concentration camp....

And she did not wish to say more.
She was verbose and frank in the relation of her far-distant experiences, but the memory of the more recent ones enshrouded her in a restless and frightened reserve.
To change the course of conversation, she spoke of the dangers that had threatened her on her journeys.
"We have to be very courageous....

The doctor, just as you see her, is a heroine....

You laugh, but if you should know her arsenal, perhaps it might strike fear to your heart.

She is a scientist." The grave lady had an invincible repugnance for vulgar weapons, and Freya referred freely to a portable medicine case full of anesthetics and poisons.
"Besides this she carries on her person a little bag full of certain powders of her own invention,--tobacco, red pepper....