HALE
That's what I hope to pass for.
POND
How long will you be on Long Island?
HALE
I shall try to be through my business in a week. I wonder if you would meet me at the same place you are going to leave me—say, a week from tonight?
POND
I'll send a small boat ashore for you, soon after dark a week from tonight.
HALE
Good! I'll be there—unless—