Mother and grandmother must be terribly anxious." "I shall be glad for you to go, Walter, for it would greatly ease their minds at home; but we are to start again, almost immediately, and probably the whole army will have marched off before you get back in the morning.

There is no saying what may occur, after we have gone.

There may be a general attack upon the Catholics.

At any rate, it will be dangerous in the extreme for a single officer, in our uniform, to be riding through the town after we have left.

Even in the country villages there must be intense excitement, and anyone in the king's uniform might be fired at, in passing through any of the Protestant settlements." "Well, father, suppose I do not start until it gets dark, then I can get home without attracting notice.