Gerald remained tense and apparently suffering from some sort of suppressed emotion.

Esther for the first time moved in her place.

She leaned towards Hamel.

Her lips were slowly parted, her eyes sought the door as though in terror.

Her voice, although save for themselves there was no one else in the whole of that great apartment, had sunk to the lowest of whispers.
"Are you a brave man, Mr.Hamel ?" she asked.
He was staggered but he answered her promptly.
"I believe so." "Don't give up the Tower--just yet.