I don't like women about at a time like this.

No offence, Madame Drovnask." "She'll go to-morrow night, I'm sure," said Peter.

"I told the Count we could not keep her here over the--over the 26th.

You see, there is a bare possibility that none of us may ever come back after the bomb is hurled.

See?
We don't want a woman to die of starvation down here, in that event.