There will be nothing unbecoming in it, or to cause you shame; you will not fly alone with me, for I will bring with me my devoted young friend Christoph, an Alsatian, who has lately joined the regiment, and who has agreed to assist in this enterprise.

We shall have come from yonder harbour, where we shall have examined the boats, and found one suited to our purpose.

Christoph has already a chart of the Channel, and we will then go to the harbour, and at midnight cut the boat from her moorings, and row away round the point out of sight; and by the next morning we are on the coast of France, near Cherbourg.

The rest is easy, for I have saved money for the land journey, and can get a change of clothes.

I will write to my mother, who will meet us on the way.' He added details in reply to her inquiries, which left no doubt in Phyllis's mind of the feasibility of the undertaking.