Lieutenant Lindsay came over to tell us about it, and how you had gained it.

Of course we were greatly pleased, although grieved to hear that you had been made prisoner.

We wondered whether, at the time you were captured, you had any of the letters I had written with you, and whether they would come in useful.
"It did not even occur to me that you would have called upon Count Platurn, my cousin.

I thought that you might be detained at Prague, but Vienna is the last place where we should have pictured you.

Had we known that you had been sent to Spielberg, I think we should have given up all hope of seeing you again, until you were exchanged; for I have heard that it is one of the strongest of the Austrian fortresses.
"I do hope, Captain Drummond, we shall see a great deal of you this winter.