27/41 Leaving the boat to its fate, we walked towards the town. "Veil your face, and it would be well that we shouldn't speak loud." "I have no desire to speak at all," said Barbara. Had we been friends, to bring her there would have taxed my persuasion to the full; as our affairs stood, I knew she would lie the night in the street before she would go. But if I got her to the house, I could keep her. But would she reach the house? |