She begged me to give her my word, which I could not have done without your permission, that whatsoever the circumstances, if life must be sacrificed, it should be hers." A dusky red shot through Walderhurst's leaden pallor.
"She asked you that ?" he said.
"Yes.

And at the worst she did not forget.

When she became delirious, and we heard that she was praying, I gathered that she seemed to be praying to me, as to a deity whom she implored to remember her fervent pleading.

When her brain was clear she was wonderful.

She saved your son by supernatural endurance." "You mean to say that if she had cared more for herself and less for the safety of the child she need not have been as she is now ?" Warren bent his head.
Lord Walderhurst's eyeglass had been dangling weakly from its cord.