I have found it so," I added, with an involuntary sigh.
She shook her head incredulously.
"What would you advise, then ?" I asked.

"That I should take a knife, or a gun, or an axe, and kill this man ?" She half started back.
"No, not that!" "Then what should I do?
Kill myself ?" "You speak in purely materialistic terms," she objected.

"There is such a thing as moral courage, and moral courage is never without effect." "Ah," I smiled, "you advise me to kill neither him nor myself, but to let him kill me." I held up my hand as she was about to speak.

"For moral courage is a worthless asset on this little floating world.

Leach, one of the men who were murdered, had moral courage to an unusual degree.