What would be our best plan for making our escape?
"Do not be frightened, Claire," he went on, seeing how pale the girl had become.

"Every general, when he is going to fight a battle, however sure he may be of success, decides upon the route by which his army shall retreat, in case of a defeat, and I am only taking the same precaution." "If there is to be a retreat made at all," Mrs.Conyers said, "I prefer that it should be made now.

Do you really think that there is any real danger of attack ?" "I think that there is danger of attack, Mrs.Conyers; but I have no reason for supposing that there is any particular danger this night." "Then Claire and I will at once start for the town, under the escort of two of your men.

It would be folly, indeed, to run the risk of another attack here.

If the house is to be burned, it must be burned.