With anything like a favorable wind we should be across in America in a month.

If orders are sent out a month after we start we may be back in time for the opening ball.

Judging from the past, it is likely to be a long business unseating Napoleon again, and if we are not in for the first of it we may be in plenty of time for a fair share of the fighting, always supposing that the authorities are sufficiently awake to the merits of the regiment to recall us." "How is the wind this evening ?" one of the officers asked.
"It was westerly when we came in," Lieutenant Desmond said.

"Why do you ask ?" "Why, as long as it blows from the west there is not much chance of the transports getting in here." "That is so," the major agreed.

"The question for us to consider is whether we ought to pray for a fair wind or a foul.