But she did not cry or fling herself about, for she knew she had remained out of the room overtime. Of course it had been for a high purpose, but that she could not explain, so she merely assented courteously and slipped into her seat. Her grandfather and his father's father had laid down their lives for the right--if she did not succeed in living through that dreadful half-hour of punishment, she would be but another of her race to die for a high cause.