I'm afraid not, William.
HULL
Listen to reason! You have a father and mother; you're engaged to be married. If by chance you were captured—well, I hate to think of it. But I'm alone in the world, it wouldn't make any difference what happened to me. Let me go!
HALE
It's no use, William. I appreciate your sentiment; but General Washington has given me a duty to perform, and I'd be a poor kind of soldier if I turned it over to anyone else simply because it involved danger.
HULL
Let me go with you, at least!
HALE
Well, if you can get permission, I'd be glad to have you go part of the way with me—though I must go into the enemy lines alone!
HULL