He had outlived peril so far; might it not be that, after all, he would win?
So far she had avoided Nahoum's name in talks with David.

She could scarcely tell why she did, save that it opened a door better closed, as it were; but the restraint had given way at last.
"Thee remembers what I said that night ?" David repeated slowly.
"I remember--I understand.

You devise your course and you never change.
It is like building on a rock.

That is why nothing happens to you as bad as might happen." "Nothing bad ever happens to me." "The philosophy of the desert," she commented smiling.

"You are living in the desert even when you are here.