But you and I will be hiding on the other side of these rhododendrons.

And when we hear him here we'll make a dash for it across the long grass.

Once let us get the door shut and locked in his face, and he'll be in a trap.

It will take him some time to break in; time enough to give us a start; what's more, when he finds us gone, he'll do what they all used to do in any doubt." "What's that ?" "Say nothing till it's found out; then lie for their lives; and it was their lives, poor creatures on the Zambesi!" She was silent a moment, her determined little face hard--set upon some unforgotten horror.
"Once we get away, I shall be surprised if it's found out till morning," concluded Eva, without a word as to what I was to do with her; neither, indeed, had I myself given that question a moment's consideration.
"Then let's make a dash for it now!" was all I said or thought.
"No; they can't come yet, and Jose is strong and brutal, and I have heard how ill you are.

That you should have come to me notwithstanding--" and she broke off with her little hands lying so gratefully on my shoulders, that I know not how I refrained from catching her then and there to my heart.