I'm on a road I don't know.

And I'm so afraid of taking a wrong turning." "Afraid!" he said.

"You!" She tried to laugh.

"You think me a very bold person, don't you?
Or you wouldn't have suggested such a thing." "I think you've got plenty of grit," he said, "but that wasn't what made me suggest it." He paused a moment.

"Perhaps it's hardly worth while going on," he said then.