His cousin was right.
And now he could hear the voices of approaching men.

Naturally, if the Germans on the culvert thought that a car containing two German officers had been wrecked, they would come to the rescue.

There was no time to be lost.
"I suppose you're right, Boris," he said, with a groan.

"But it's the hardest thing I've ever had to do! But it is so.

It would make it worse for you if I stayed.