If there were a couple of hours more light, I should feel very uneasy." "So should I, master.

You and I would have little chance of mercy, if we fell into their hands.

It might well be that, in their anger, they might slay the ladies, also." "That would be like enough, Roger.

However, there can be no chance of their coming here, before it is dark." At nine o'clock they started, and made their way down, with some difficulty and many slips and falls, into the valley.

Then they kept along near the river, till Oswald was sure they were close to the ford.
He bade them halt here, and went forward alone.