And yet he found himself watching her.
She was very pale and he knew if he was near enough to her, he would still see the fear behind her eyes.
She appeared to him to be very quiet, but nevertheless she was behaving in a circumspect and courageous way which he admired.
Most women in her position at this moment would, he well knew, be having hysterics, clinging to some man, crying on his shoulder and reiterating over and over how frightened they were.
He was fully aware that Helga was terrified and that she had every reason for it.
It struck him for the first time that she was behaving like the lady she was by birth and now he understood a great many things that had puzzled him.
She was not an actress and never had been and it must have been simply because she needed the money that sh
