A great pity seized him and almost conquered his timidity.
"It is very difficult to help you," Heritage was saying.

"You won't leave this place, and you won't claim the protection of the law.

You are very independent, Mademoiselle, but it can't go on for ever.

The man you fear may arrive at any moment.

At any moment, too, your treasure may by discovered." "It is that that weighs on me," she cried.