"If that is really all--" "What more could the most exacting require ?" said Max.
What indeed! Yet the phrase struck Olga somehow as being not wholly satisfactory.

Perhaps even then, vaguely she began to realize that the species of bond he described might prove the most inviolable of all.

But she raised no further argument, doubts notwithstanding; for, in face of his assurance, there seemed nothing left to say..