Would you have us three--you and Kahn and myself--travel arm in arm and speak never a word to our fellow passengers?
Would you have us proclaim to all the world that we are on a secret mission, carrying a secret document, to obtain which we have already committed a crime?
These are old-fashioned methods, Streuss.

It is better that we behave like ordinary mortals.

You talk foolishly, Streuss!" "It is you," the older man declared, "who play the fool, and we will not have it! Mademoiselle Idiale is a Servian and a patriot.

She is the friend, too, of Bellamy, the Englishman.

She and he were together last night." "Bellamy is not even on the train," Von Behrling protested.