Now, for some mysterious reason, he felt her brooding guardianship to be something less passive, to be something more immediate and personal.

He knew--and he knew it with a full appreciation of the irony that lurked in the situation--that her very timorousness was now endowing him with a new and reckless courage.

So he took her hand, gratefully, before he spoke again.
"Well, whatever happens, we are now in this, not from choice, as you said before, but from necessity.

If it has dangers, Frank, we must face them." "It is nothing _but_ danger!" "Then we must grin and bear it.

But as I said, I see no reason why we should cross our bridges before we come to them.