We'll just wait and plan.
For what we're going to undertake you're bound to have every ounce of vigor that you can accumulate." "You've been able to go out in the hall when you chose, then why haven't you gone away already ?" asked Ned.
"I didn't get my key perfected until a few days ago, and then as I heard you yelling in here I decided to find out about you.

Two are company; one is none, and so we formed a partnership.

Now when the firm acts both partners must act." Ned did not reply directly.

He did not know how to thank him for his generosity.
"Have you explored the hall ?" he asked.
"It leads up a narrow stairway, down which I came some time ago when my Mexican brethren decided that I was too much of a Texan patriot.
Doubtless you trod the same dark and narrow path.

At the head of that is another door which I have not tried, but which I know I can open with this master key of mine.