Besides, it may be that she was a thought beglamoured by the danger in which he stood, which seemed to invest him with a certain heroic dignity.
"Ruth," he said at length, "it may well be that that which you desire may speedily come to pass; it may well be that in the course of this rebellion that is hatching you may be widowed.

But at least I know that if my head falls it will not be my wife who has betrayed me to the axe.
For that much, believe me, I am supremely grateful." He advanced.

He took her unresisting hand again and bore it to his lips, bowing low before her.

Then erect and graceful he turned on his heel and left her..