Isn't it true?
I don't feel justified in giving it up.

The end is too important.

The good of thousands, of hundreds of thousands, is at stake.' Adela looked him in the face searchingly.
'But how can we help it?
There is the will.' Mutimer met her eyes.
'No one knows of it but ourselves, Adela.' It was not indignation that her look expressed, but at first a kind of shocked surprise and then profound trouble.

It was with difficulty that she found words.
'You are not speaking in earnest ?' 'I am!' he exclaimed, almost hopefully.

'In downright earnest.