There was something intolerable in the words.

With the tears upon her cheeks she challenged them.
"He can be saved! He must be saved! I'll do it somehow--somehow!" "You may try," Burke said, as he suffered her to release herself.
"You won't succeed." She forced a difficult smile with quivering lips.

"You don't know me.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

And I shall find it somehow." He looked grim for an instant, then smiled an answering smile.
"Don't perish in the attempt!" he said.