I fear that there is peril everywhere; but it must be faced.
I think it will be useless for us to try and reach the frontier by land.

At every town and village they will be on the look-out for fugitives, and whatever disguise you might adopt you could not escape observation.

I think, then, that we must make for the sea and hire a fishing-boat to take us across to England.
"But we must not hurry.

In the first place, we must settle all our plans carefully and prepare our disguises; in the next place, there will be such tremendous excitement when the news of what has happened here is known that it would be unsafe to travel.

I think myself it will be best to wait a little until there is a lull.