12/13 "Pooh," she answered, smiling. "You are a man; and yet you are afraid of a little taboo. I am a woman; and yet if I knew the secret as you do, I would break taboo as easily as I would break an egg-shell. I would tell the white-faced stranger all--if only it would bring you and me together forever." "It is a great risk, a very great risk," the Shadow answered, trembling. He may be listening this moment, and may pinch us to death by his spirits for our words, or burn us to ashes with a flash of his anger." The woman smiled an incredulous smile. |