There will be an end, you know.

I have had to face it to-night." She looked up at him quickly, but he was ready for her.

He had banished from his face the awful despair that he carried in his soul.
"When Sir Reginald Bassett comes--" she began uncertainly.
He put his hand on her shoulder.

"You will try not to be afraid," he said.

"I am going to treat you, as I have treated my officers, with absolute candour.