Of course, some of their prisons must be better than others and, if they will confine us in some place near the frontier, instead of marching us half through France, it will make it all the easier for us to get away.

It is not the getting out of prison that is the difficulty, but the travelling through the country.

I am getting on well with my French, but there is no hope of being able to speak well enough to pass as a native.

As for you, you will have to keep your mouth shut altogether, which will be mightily difficult." "You will manage it somehow, Terence.

I have no fear of you getting me through the country.