6/8 It was as if then for a minute they sat and saw it all in each other's eyes, saw so much that there was no need of a pretext for sounding it at last. "Your danger, your danger--!" Her voice indeed trembled with it, and she could only for the moment again leave it so. It grew so strange that after a further instant she got straight up. She stood there as if their talk were now over, and he just sat and watched her. It was as if now--owing to the third person they had brought in--they must be more careful; so that the most he could finally say was: "That's where it is!" "That's where it is!" the girl as guardedly replied. |