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I said:
"Remember, Miss de Barral, that to be fair you must trust a man
altogether--or not at all."
She dropped her eyes suddenly. I thought I heard a faint sigh. I tried
to take a light tone again, and yet it seemed impossible to get off the
ground which gave me my standing with her.
"Mrs. Fyne is absurd. She's an excellent woman, but really you could not
be expected to throw away your chance of life simply that she might
cherish a good opinion of your memory. That would be excessive."
"It was not of my life that I was thinking while Captain Anthony was--was
speaking to me," said Flora de Barral with an effort.
I told her that she was wrong then. She ought to have been thinking of
her life, and not only of her life but of the life of the man who was
speaking to her too. She let me finish, then shook her head impatiently.
"I mean--death."
"Well," I said, "when he stood before you there, outside the cottage, he
really stood between you and that. I have it out of your own mouth. You
can't deny it."
"If you will have it that he saved my life, then he has got it.


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