He might and he might not.

He'll probably act as if he didn't." I appreciated the justice of this forecast of General Whittingham's measures.
"Well, we must chance it," I said.

"At any rate, better be caught by him than stay here.

We were, perhaps, a little hasty with that revolution of ours." "I never thought the colonel was so wicked," said the signorina.
We had no time to waste in abusing our enemy; the question was how to outwit him.

I unfolded my plan to the signorina, not at all disguising from her the difficulties, and even dangers, attendant upon it.
Whatever may have been her mind before and after, she was at this moment either so overcome with her fear of the colonel, or so carried away by her feeling for me, that she made nothing of difficulties and laughed at dangers, pointing out that though failure would be ignominious, it could not substantially aggravate our present position.