11/13 "He is rather a clumsy person, is he not ?" "You will be careful ?" she begged earnestly. "Remember, won't you, that Helen and I are really in a most disgraceful position if anything should come out." "Nothing shall," he promised her. "I think you know, do you not, that, whatever might happen to me, I should find some means to protect you." For the second time she felt a curious lack of will to fittingly reprove his boldness. She had even to struggle to keep her tone as careless as her words. "How long is it since you descended from the clouds ?" "Sometimes I think that I am there still," he answered, "but I have known you about seventy-six hours." "What precision ?" she laughed. |