He must deliver him up to a firing party--or to a court-martial which will inevitably sentence him to death, no matter what the defence that Dick may urge.
He is a man prejudged, foredoomed by the necessities of war.

And Terence will do this although it will break his heart and ruin all his life.
Understand me, then, that in enjoining you never to allow Terence to suspect that Dick is present, I am pleading not so much for you or for Dick, but for Terence himself--for it is upon Terence that the hardest and most tragic suffering must fall.

Now do you understand ?" "I understand that men are very stupid," was her way of admitting it.
"And you see that you were wrong in judging Terence as you did ?" "I--I suppose so." She didn't understand it all.

But since Tremayne was so insistent she supposed there must be something in his point of view.

She had been brought up in the belief that Ned Tremayne was common sense incarnate; and although she often doubted it--as you may doubt the dogmas of a religion in which you have been bred--yet she never openly rebelled against that inculcated faith.