"The sooner the better."
"What do you say to making the time immediately after dark?"
"I am agreeable."
"As Lieutenant Gordan has been watching the old boathouse of late, it will be necessary to have the fight take place elsewhere."
"All right."
"It may be stopped if it is anywhere in this vicinity."
"Yes."
"Black Bluff is but a mile away."
"That's all."
"Why not go there?"