If, on the other hand, the matter should turn out to be serious, you will assuredly get great credit for having discovered it.

Therefore, turn it over in your mind tonight, and see if you can arrive at some scheme for seeing further into it before we take any steps." In the morning Gervaise again called upon Sir John Kendall.
"Well, Sir Gervaise, I hope that you have hit upon some scheme for getting to the bottom of this matter.

I confess that I myself, though I have had a sleepless night over it, have not been able to see any method of getting to the root of the affair, save by the application of torture." "I do not know whether the plan I have thought of will commend itself to your opinion, sir, but I have worked out a scheme which will, I think, enable us to get to the bottom of the matter.

I believe that a galley is expected back from a cruise today or tomorrow.

Now, sir, my idea is that I should go on board a small craft, under the command of a knight upon whose discretion and silence you can rely, such as, for example, Sir John Boswell, and that we should intercept the galley.