Would you be willing to undertake such a duty ?" "I will try, sir," James said.

"Do you wish me to start tonight ?" "No," the general replied.

"You had better think the matter over, and let me know tomorrow how you had best proceed.

It is not an enterprise to be undertaken without thinking it over in every light.

You will have to decide whether you will go alone, or take anyone with you; when and how you will land; how you will regain the ships.