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| 29 | 355 | Did she not View more quotes about recognize">recognize the jeopardy, the risks, involved? She had doubtless, of course, felt herself secure, alone and unobserved. |
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| 29 | 352 | "What are you going to do—Master," she whispered. |
| 29 | 353 | How careless she had been on the outer parapet, in casting an object to the valley below. |
| 29 | 354 | How was it that she had failed to exercise a greater caution? How anomalous an action that had been for a woman of her obvious intelligence. |
| 29 | 355 | Did she not recognize the jeopardy, the risks, involved? She had doubtless, of course, felt herself secure, alone and unobserved. |
| 29 | 356 | That was understood. |
| 29 | 357 | That must be the case. |
| 29 | 358 | Had she not communicated with a confederate or confederates below, similarly, on several occasions? But how had it been that on that occasion she had, apparently, shut out the very possibility of detection? What was different on that night? Might she not be observed? Could she have been unaware that Tajima might have drifted near her, as he, to her contempt and amusement, had so often done in the past? How was it that it had not even occurred to her that he, or another, might have been about? How could such a possibility be forgotten? Why should it be forgotten? What could explain such a lapse? Had she closed a gate, which she refused to open? I had never understood the passion of that contempt, the intense cruelty of that amusement, lavished on the hapless Tajima. |