"I shouldn't have thought of that." "We couldn't fight in the dark; we shouldn't know friends from foes." "We should know our own men, and of course your men would be enemies to my men; but, of course, we shouldn't want to fight, but to know Purlrose and his men.

Yes, we must have pitch torches.

I can bring any number of them, for we use them sometimes in the big parts of the mine, where the smoke doesn't matter.

Well, it all seems easy enough.

I don't believe there'll be a door to batter down, only a curtain across to keep the wind out, and it's a very narrow place, I remember.