"But how can we go?"
"Well, I don't know just yet. I only know the way from my room here, and back again; but I may find out something."
"But that won't do any good. Don't you really know any way out?"
"Not yet, but I hope to find one; I dare say I shall before long."
"Oh, how delicious! how perfectly delicious that would be! I do wish that you only could. It would be quite too awfully nice, you know."
"I'll let you know. I promise you."
"But then," said Katie, "you'll be going off yourself and leaving poor me behind."
"Leave you!" said Harry, indignantly; "never!"
"Wouldn't you really?" asked Katie, in a tone of delight.
"Never," said Harry. "I wouldn't stir a step without you. I'd rather be a prisoner with you than a free man without you."