Can you not realize my position if you are discovered here?
What--what Captain Le Gaire would say ?" "Very easily," my voice insensibly hardening at the memory, "and I should like to remain to meet him, if that were the only danger.

No, please stand exactly where you are, Miss Hardy, so as to keep me in the shadow.

Thank you.

There is a man sitting on a bench yonder just within the orchard.

He has been there for the last twenty minutes, and it is his presence which has made it impossible for me to get away.