"Are you afraid ?" he said.
"I should be--- by myself," she made answer.

"I don't think I like India at too close quarters.

She is so mysterious and so horribly ruthless." He passed over the last two sentences as though they had not been uttered.

"But you are not afraid with me ?" he said.
She quivered at something in his question.

"I am not sure," she said.