"One false step," she said, "too sharp a turn, too wide a curve, and we'd have been in the quicksand! It's like that all over.

It's life, and it's full of danger, whichever way we turn." He looked at her curiously.

"Why, what has come to you ?" he said.
She caught her breath in a sound that was like a sob.

"I don't know," she said.

"It's being so madly happy that has frightened me.