But all that you can understand.

This time, to go on in sporting phrase, it was understood by all to be a 'fight to a finish,' and the mixed group did not slacken a moment or relax their efforts.

On Lilla the strain began to tell disastrously.

She grew pale--a patchy pallor, which meant that her nerves were out of order.

She trembled like an aspen, and though she struggled bravely, I noticed that her legs would hardly support her.