Let us suppose that I allow you to go to St.Sulpice des Reaux.

What if you do not return ?" "You mistrust me ?" I exclaimed, my hopes melting.
"You misapprehend me.

I mean, what if you are killed ?" "I do not think that I shall be." "Ah! But what if you are?
What shall I say to my Lord Cardinal ?" "Dame! That I am dead, and that he is saved the trouble of hanging me.
The most he can want of me is my life.

Let us suppose that you had come an hour later.

You would have been forced to wait until after the encounter, and, did I fall, matters would be no different." The young man fell to thinking, but I, knowing that it is not well to let the young ponder overlong if you would bend them to your wishes, broke in upon his reflections--"See, Montresor, yonder are the lights of Blois; by eight o'clock we shall be in the town.