Well, supposing the dangers are equal, this one is the nearest, and so I guess we've got to fight it first." "Spoken like a good American!" he said, putting his arm across her shoulders and looking at once with infinite pride and infinite regret at the calm, proud face which the glory of resignation had adorned with a new beauty.
She bowed her head and then looked away again so that he should not see that there were tears in her eyes.

He took his hand from her shoulder and stared in silence down at the needle.

It was stationary again.
"We've stopped!" he said, after a pause of several moments.

"Now, if the body that's taken us out of our course is moving away from us we win, if it's coming towards us we lose.

At any rate, we've done all we can.