But to Olga the whole world had become a place of darkness and of the shadow of death.

Whichever way she turned, she was afraid.
"Oh, why have you told me ?" she said at last.

"Why--why have you told me ?" "Can't you guess ?" said Hunt-Goring.
"No!" Yet her breath came sharply with the word.

If she did not guess, she feared.
He looked down at her for the first time unsmiling.

"I have told you," he said, "that I mean to marry you, and--in keeping with the part of villain which you have assigned to me--I don't much care what I do to get you." She met his look with all her quivering courage.