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Rh  Never mind how. I will — you'll see I will.

 Do you mean that you'll warn the Minister?

 [Fiercely.] Why shouldn't I? Since his life is in danger, why shouldn't I?  [With triumph.] There you are! What did I tell you, sir?  No, no! Margaret doesn't understand. Listen to me again, my child. It is you who will be running the risk. You cannot warn the Minister without incriminating yourself. You will have to give him the source of your information—and what will that lead to? The revelation of your own identity—who you really are, what you intended to do when you went into his house two months ago, and why you came here to-night.

 [By a sudden memory of her oath, putting her hands over her face.] Oh! Oh!

 Otto, too ! How can you warn the Minister without incriminating Otto also? He will be arrested on your information—tried, condemned, imprisoned, perhaps put to death?