Then she withdrew it and leaned back in her chair.
"Is that meant to introduce a more intimate note into our conversation ?" she asked, with a slight wrinkling of the forehead and the beginnings of a smile upon her lips.
"If I dared, I would answer 'yes'," he assured her.
"They tell me," she continued pensively, "that Englishmen more than any other men in the world have the flair for saying convincingly the things which they do not mean." "In my case, that would not be true," he answered.

"My trouble is that I dare not say one half of what I feel." She looked across the table at him, and Nigel suddenly felt a great weight of depression lifted from his heart.

He forgot all about his country's peril.

Life and its possibilities seemed somehow all different.

He was carried away by a rare wave of emotion.
"Naida!" he whispered.
"Yes ?" Her eyes were soft and expectant.