"Everyone says so." "It is quite true.

There will be no further change.

The orders have been all issued, and you may rely upon it that we are going to sea." "And when will you return ?" "That's another matter altogether," Francis laughed.

"It may be a week, it may be three months." "But I thought we were going to fight the Genoese galleys.

It does not seem to me that a week is wanted to do that.