"This way." She followed him a few steps, and suddenly stopped.
"Suppose I _am_ discovered ?" she broke out, abruptly.

"Who has any authority over me?
Who can take me back, if I don't choose to go?
If they all find me to-morrow, what then?
Can't I say No to Mr.Pendril?
Can't I trust my own courage with Miss Garth ?" "Can you trust your courage with your sister ?" whispered the captain, who had not forgotten the references to Norah which had twice escaped her already.
Her head drooped.

She shivered as if the cold night air had struck her, and leaned back wearily against the parapet of the wall.
"Not with Norah," she said, sadly.

"I could trust myself with the others.

Not with Norah." "This way," repeated Captain Wragge.