Im notafraid; I know perfectly well Im not
afraid.
The Acts thatwere about to take place saw to that.
They obeyed her still; one hand on the nearer shoulder of eachshe held them there.
She held itin her left, and tried to pull her right free, but she could not. As it
smashed, the dwarf with a little squeal turned round andbegan stumbling towards the
door.
Before either of the young men couldspeak, Betty
had followed it and sat down by it. He knew only the reports in thepapers, and
Simon. There, peering among the bristles of the brushes, shefound two or three short
golden hairs.
Then Betty said, in a low voice ofwelcome: Lester!
The City must have what belonged to it in themode in which it belonged. I-He said:
Youve never been tiresome, and she: No;speak true now, my own.
No-one, said the dwarf with a slow effort and in a
harsh imitation ofEvelyns voice, cares about me. The silence became a fearful burden
tothem all. Neither of them spoke; itknew its way and went before him into the room
where the others were. For almost a minute her voice shrieked alone, and then it was
no longeralone.
The sense of the crisis was sharp in them, and the
expectation ofthat which came.
Jonathan said under his breath: God be merciful to
us all! She was here-and Richard and Betty,and Jonathan too, were here for this
purpose.
The sense of the crisis was sharp in them, and the
expectation ofthat which came. In sorcery as insanctity there is no return. They
obeyed her still; one hand on the nearer shoulder of eachshe held them
there.
They fell into silence, and for the time that
followed they remainedmostly silent. Those who passed it heard a kind of low croak
coming from it, butnot what it said. He was reluctant to do what he was being
driven, by that scurry in hismind, to intend. Illusion, to the magician as to
thesaint, is a great danger. His two friends watched himcoming back to them across
the room. The only sound now was that of the rain upon theroof.
And now inthis happier world he had thought to
enter, a thing as extreme struckhim. She thought no more of tubes and tunnelsfilled
with horrors. Betty said: Dont worry, Richard; we cant be taught till we can learn.