"I even despise myself for what I am doing.

I am turning traitor myself, simply because I could not bear the thought of what might happen to you if you were discovered." "You like me, then, a little, Mr.Orden ?" she asked.
"Twenty-four hours ago," he sighed, "I had hoped to answer that question before it was asked." "This is very tantalising," she murmured.

"You are going to save my life, then, and afterwards treat me as though I were a leper ?" "I shall hope," he said, "that you may have explanations--that I may find--" She held out her hand and stopped him.

Once more, for a moment, her eyes were distended, her form was tense.

She was listening intently.
"There is some one coming," she whispered--"two or three men, I think.
What fools we have been! We ought to have decided--about the car." Her teeth came together for a moment.