I asked him if he would not take pistols, but he refused." "Well, I don't understand that," Captain Forster remarked.

"If I had gone on such a business I would have taken a couple of revolvers.

I am quite ready to take my chance of being killed fighting, but I should not like to be seized and hacked to pieces in cold blood.

My theory is a man should sell his life as dearly as he can." "That is the animal instinct, Forster," the Doctor said sharply; "though I don't say that I should not feel the same myself; but I question whether Bathurst's is not a higher type of courage." "Well, I don't aspire to Bathurst's type of courage, Doctor," Forster said, with a short laugh.
But the Doctor did not answer.

He had already turned away, and was making for the stairs.
"May I go with you, Doctor ?" Isobel Hannay said, following him.