Some day you will understand, if you help me.

If you do not care to help me--" She stopped, and he made a gesture.
"Yes, if I don't?
What will happen then ?" "I shall be forced to the inevitable," she said.

"It is rather unusual, isn't it, to be asking for one's life?
But that is what I mean." "I'm afraid--I don't quite understand." "Isn't it clear, Mr.Holt?
I don't like to appear spectacular, and I don't want you to think of me as theatrical--even now.

I hate that sort of thing.

You must simply believe me when I tell you it is impossible for me to reach Cordova alive.