Already there is risk enough in you and Victor being here.

The search for Royalists does not relax, indeed it seems to become more and more keen every day.

Victor's extreme illness is your best safeguard.

The neighbours have heard that Jacques has had a fellow-workman dangerously ill for some long time, and Victor can no longer be looked upon as a stranger to be suspected, while your coming here to help nurse him will seem so natural a step that it will excite no comment.

But any fresh addition of numbers would be sure to give rise to talk, and you would have a commissary of the Commune here in no time to make inquiries, and to ask for your papers of domicile." "Yes, I know that it would be too dangerous to risk," Marie agreed; "but I tremble at the thought of their journey." "I have every hope that we shall get through safely," Harry said.
"I have some good news I have not yet told you.