Ah, but we are not safe! I am afraid!" Clementina turned sharply towards him as he spoke this unwonted confession.
"You!" she exclaimed with a wondering laugh.

Yet he had spoken the truth.

His face was twitching; his eyes had the look of a man scared out of his wits.
"Yes, I am afraid," he said in a low, uneasy voice.

"When I have all but won through the danger, then comes my moment of fear.

In the thick of it, perils tread too close upon the heels of peril for a man to count them up.