May I not go with you, madam?
There may be dragons to slay, and two can guard a distressed princess better than one.

Will you take me for your squire, Captain Percy ?" He held out his great hand, and after a moment I put my own in it.
We left the garden and struck into a lane.

"The river, then, instead of the forest ?" he asked in a low voice.
"Ay," I answered.

"Of the two evils it seems the lesser." "How about a boat ?" "My own is fastened to the piles of the old deserted wharf." "You have with you neither food nor water." "Both are in the boat.

I have kept her victualed for a week or more." He laughed in the darkness, and I heard my wife beside me utter a stifled exclamation.
The lane that we were now in ran parallel to the street to within fifty yards of the guest house, when it bent sharply down to the river.