I opened the door wider, wondering if I dare venture upon slipping by unobserved.
Then Grant spoke, his voice loud enough to be easily heard: "How did we come here?
Why, where else could we go?
The damned rebels stripped us clean; we had to have food.

This was the nearest place where we were certain of getting any.

Of course I didn't know you were here, but I did know our foragers had left Elmhurst alone, and that--for some cause which mystifies Clinton--these Jersey outlaws have been equally considerate.

There was plenty to be had here, and I meant to have it in spite of the servants." "You must have marched straight past your own place," the boyish voice interrupted.
"Well, what if we did.

There was nothing there, as you know.