For,
sitting apart in the growing darkness, each was plainly in terror of
the morrow. Presently Corrus spoke in a low tone:
"All the same, Dulnop, it were well for me and thee if the secret of
the flowing blossom were given us this night. I"--he paused,
abashed--"I am not so sure of myself, Dulnop, when I hear Their
accursed buzzing. I fear--I am afraid I might give in!"
At this Dulnop broke down, and fell to sobbing. Nothing could have
told the investigators so well just how childlike the Sanusians
really were. Corrus had all he could do to hold in himself.
"Mownoth!" he exclaimed, his eyes raised fervently. "If it be thy
will to deliver us, give us the secret this night!"
Meanwhile, in Rolla's hut, a similar scene was going on under the
doctor's projected eye. Cunora lost her nerve, and Rolla came near
to doing the same in her efforts to comfort the other.
"They are heartless things!" Rolla exclaimed with such bitterness as
her nature would permit. "They know not what love is: They with
their drones and their egg-babes! What is family life to Them?
Nothing!
"Somehow I feel that Their reign is nearly at an end, Cunora.
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