You may fail, after all." "Do I look like one who will fail, Marie ?" She studied me from head to foot, then answered: "No, you do not, although you did when you came back from the king's huts.

Now you are quite changed.

Still, Allan, you may fail, and then--what?
Some of those dreadful Zulus have been here while you were sleeping, bidding us all make ready to go to the Hill of Death.

They say that Dingaan is in earnest.

If you do not kill the vultures, he will kill us.