The viscount wishes to obtain certain information, and I am going to fetch it for him, if I can." "I hope that you will be successful, sir.

It is a good night for travelling, the stars are bright and the moon down, so that you will have light enough to keep the road, and time enough to step aside should you meet any party who might be inclined to question all passersby." "Do you know the roads well about here ?" Hector asked.
"I was stationed in Turin before the enemy came with too great a force to be resisted." "I want to strike across the country, and to come into the road from Turin to Casale at a distance of three or four miles from the city." "A mile or so away a road branches off from this which keeps by the river.

It is a mere country road, and except in two or three small villages that you will pass through, you are not likely to meet with anyone upon it.

It is about eight miles to the main road from the point where you turn off, and you will then be five miles from Turin.

It is just possible that you may meet patrols, but I should think it very unlikely; now that our army has gone into winter quarters at Carignano, they are not likely to be very vigilant." As they rode along Hector related some of the incidents of the late battle.