In any case, it is clearly your duty to save yourself." "Do you really think so?
It has seemed to me cowardly to run away." "But, Rene," I urged.

"They were the ones who deserted first.

If they had warning of danger, they fled without a word to you--leaving you alone in the hands of those men." "They--they, perhaps they failed to realize my peril.

Oh you cannot see this as I do," she faltered, endeavoring to conjure up some excuse.
"They may have thought they could serve me best in that way." I laughed, but not in any spirit of humor.
"Hardly that, I imagine.

Far more likely they fled suddenly in a panic of fear, without pausing to think at all.