If I follow him to Naples, it is just possible I might be able to dissuade him from pursuing Hayle.

If he were to kill me for preventing them, I would not let them meet.

Believe me when I say that I am terribly anxious about him.

Besides----" Here she paused for a moment as if she did not quite know how to continue what she had to say to me.
"As I have said, you and Monsieur -- -- I mean the French gentleman--could travel in your own way.

All that I want to be assured of is, that I may be in Naples and at hand should anything happen." "If you really wish it, I do not see why you should not go ?" I replied meditatively.