For US." "For us.

For whom else ?" And he was to feel indeed how she wished him to understand it.

"We know nothing on earth--!" It was an undertaking he must sign.
So he wrote, as it were, his name.

"We know nothing on earth." It was like the soldiers' watchword at night.
"We're as innocent," she went on in the same way, "as babes." "Why not rather say," he asked, "as innocent as they themselves are ?" "Oh, for the best of reasons! Because we're much more so." He wondered.

"But how can we be more-- ?" "For them?
Oh, easily! We can be anything." "Absolute idiots then ?" "Absolute idiots.