He will hear nothing but praise; but that very praise may cause him to doubt still more that you are not what you seem." "But why can we not run away at once ?" Virginie said.

"Why should we wait here till they come and take us and carry us away and kill us ?" "That is what I was thinking when I came home, Virginie; but the risk of trying to escape in a fishing-boat by ourselves would be tremendous.

You see, although I have gone out sailing sometimes on the river in England, I know very little about it, and although we might be picked up by an English ship, it would be much more likely that we should fall into the hands of one of the French gunboats.
So I look upon that as a desperate step, to be taken only at the last moment.

And now that Jeanne seems to have arranged a safe plan, I do not like trying such a wild scheme.

A week now, and perhaps all might be arranged; but the question is--Have we a week?
Have we more than twenty-four hours?
What do you think, Jeanne ?" "I do not see what is best to do yet," Jeanne said, looking steadily in the fire.