“Thank God I prevented you from doing that,” Warren exclaimed. “But now, my precious, it is all over. The Czarevitch is your friend, and I am sure the programme of cruelty against the Jews will cease as soon as he comes to the throne.”
“Do you really – think I am – safe?”
“You will be safe as my wife,” Warren said, “and we are not even going to wait until the present Czar dies. We will be married immediately, but everyone except my mother will still know you by the name we invented.”
He pressed his lips against her cheek before he went on,
“Later, when it is safe to do so, we will tell the truth, and I know everybody will think it a story of great bravery, as I do.”
“I – it was not very – brave of me to – want to – die.”
“It was very brave of you to let me save you and to come here a
