Anyhow, I think we cannot do better than go on until we strike the railway, keep along by that till we get within a short distance of Mount Pleasant, and then cross it.

After that we can decide whether we will travel by the road or keep on through the woods.

But we cannot find our way through the woods at night; we should lose ourselves before we had gone twenty yards." "I am afraid we should, Miss Kingston." "Please call me Lucy," the girl interrupted.

"I am never called anything else, and I am sure this is not a time for ceremony." "I think that it will be better; and will you please call me Vincent?
It is much shorter and pleasanter using our first names; and as we must pass for brother and sister, if we get among the Yankees, it is better to get accustomed to it.

I quite agree with you that it will be too dark to find our way through the woods unless we can discover a path.