What would happen then?
Who would believe my story--or yours?
They sound improbable even to ourselves.
Here, at least, is a chance of discovering the truth, for I most solemnly believe that Thalassa knows it, or guesses it.

What other chance have we of finding out the hideous mystery of that night?
I must go, Sisily.

I will be careful, for your sake." She knew by his voice that he was not to be deterred from the hazardous enterprise, so she did not attempt to dissuade him further.

But she clung to him trembling, as though she would have shielded him from the menace of capture.

He was thinking rapidly.
"It may be that I shall fail," he said.