I really cannot see what they could do to me." Philippa tried bluntness.
"You have served in the German army, and you are living in a protected area under a false name," she declared.
"Well, of course, there is some truth in what you say," he admitted, "but even if they have tumbled to that and can prove it, I should do no good by running away.

To be perfectly serious," he added, setting his cup down, "there is only one thing at the present moment which would take me out of Dreymarsh, and that is if you believe that my presence here would further compromise you and Miss Fairclough." Philippa was beginning to find her courage.

"We're in it already, up to the neck," she observed.

"I really don't see that anything matters so far as we are concerned." "In that case," he decided, "I shall have the honour of presenting myself at the usual time.".