"I think it would have been just as well to have been killed at once.

They are sure to find us here, and if they don't we shall die of cold before tomorrow morning." "I don't think they will find us," Walter said cheerfully.

"When they have searched the castle thoroughly it may occur to some of them that we have jumped down the well, but it will be no particular business of anyone to look for us, and they will all be too anxious to get at the wine butts to trouble their heads about the matter; besides, it must be a heavy job to wind up this bucket, and it is not likely there will be such urgent need of water that anyone will undertake the task." "But we are no better off if they don't," Ralph remarked, "for we must die here if we are not hauled out.

I suppose you don't intend to try and climb that rope.

I might do twenty feet or so on a pinch, but I could no more get up to the top there than I could fly." "We must think it over," Walter rejoined; "where there is a will there is a way, you know.