"I feel sometimes as if--as we used to say at school--I could cry for twopence.

I know, Jeanne, I can trust you, and it isn't because I doubted your courage that I have not told you exactly how things are going on, but because it is entirely upon you now that Louise and Virginie have to depend, and I do not wish to put any more weight on your shoulders; but it will be a relief to me to tell you exactly how we stand." Harry then told her how completely he had failed with the sailors, and how an actual feeling of hostility against him had arisen.
"I think I could have stood that, Jeanne; but it is that terrible committee that tries me.

It is so awful hearing these fiends marking out their victims and exulting over their murder, that at times I feel tempted to throw myself upon some of them and strangle them." "It must be dreadful, Harry," Jeanne said soothingly.

"Will it not be possible for you to give out that you are ill, and so absent yourself for a time from their meetings?
I am sure you look ill--ill enough for anything.

As to the sailors, do not let that worry you.