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Where are we?"
SAFE."
But WHERE?"
Chichester Harbour." He waved his arm seaward as though it was a goal.
Do you think they will follow us?"
We have turned and turned again."
It seemed to Hoopdriver that he heard her sob. She stood dimly there,
holding her machine, and he, holding his, could go no nearer to her to
see if she sobbed for weeping or for want of breath. "What are we to do
now?" her voice asked.
"Are you tired?" he asked.
"I will do what has to be done."
The two black figures in the broken light were silent for a space. "Do
you know," she said, "I am not afraid of you. I am sure you are honest
to me. And I do not even know your name!"
He was taken with a sudden shame of his homely patronymic. "It's an ugly
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