I am only safe if you recognize me as that which I claim to be.

Answer me! You do believe I am the wife of Philadelphus ?" "I believed it, at once," he said frankly.
"Then--then--" but she flung her hands over her face and slipped down on the rugs.

For a moment he hesitated, restraining the impulse to break over the limits she had laid down for him.
Then he rose and, summoning one of the women who had taken refuge in the crypt, sent her to remain with the girl, and departed, shaken and uncertain, to his own place..