A very few minutes, however, gave her complete control of herself. Then, motioning her husband to sit beside her on
the sofa where she was half reclining, she made the rest of us bring chairs up close.
Taking her husband’s hand in hers, she began, ‘We are all here together in freedom, for perhaps the last time! I know that you will always be with me to the end.’ This was to her husband whose hand had, as we could see, tightened upon her. ‘In the morning we go out upon our task, and God alone knows what may be in store for any of us. You are going to be so good to me to take me with you. I know that all that brave earnest men can do for a poor weak woman,
whose soul perhaps is lost, no, no, not yet, but is at any rate at stake, you will do. But you must remember that I am not as you ar
