The answer he had expected was quite the reverse.
"You mean that you refuse ?" he exclaimed.
"It is just what I meant." "May I ask why, when you are in such a hopeless position ?" "Tayoga, Mr.Willet and I wish to see how long we can endure the pangs of thirst without total collapse.

We've had quite a difference on the subject.

Tayoga says ten days, Mr.Willet twelve days, but I think we can stand it a full two weeks." De Galissonniere frowned.
"You are frivolous, Mr.Lennox," he said, "and this is not a time for light talk.

I don't know what you mean, but it seems to me you don't appreciate the dire nature of your peril.

I liked you and your comrades when I met you in Quebec and I do not wish to see you perish at the hands of the savages.