It's a grand idea, Captain Clive, a grand idea, though I own it seems to me a desperate one." "In desperate times we must take desperate measures, Doctor," Captain Clive said.

"Now I must be going on after the governor.

I shall see you tomorrow.
"I will not forget you, young gentlemen." So saying, he proceeded to the factory.
It was afterwards known that the proposal, to effect a diversion by an expedition against Arcot, was the proposal of Clive himself.

Upon arriving at Trichinopoli, he had at once seen that all was lost, there.

The soldiers were utterly dispirited and demoralized.