Whatever is to be done must be done promptly.

Without direct orders from the court, no step can be taken in so important a matter.

But the orders may arrive any hour, and I think you will see that there will be no loss of time in executing them." "And Nerac could not stand a long siege, even if it were strongly garrisoned; and the handful of men she has got with her could not defend the walls for an hour.

I hope she may not take the alarm too soon; for as you say, once back in Navarre it would be difficult, indeed, to take her.

It is no joke hunting a bear among the mountains; and as her people are devoted to her, she could play hide and seek among the valleys and hills for weeks--ay, or months--before she could be laid hold of.
"It is well for our cause, Maignan, that she is not a man.