Gentlemen, we must keep counsel with ourselves. This is to waste. Nerves must be unclouded to-day.

(He returns to his seat, the others with him.)

Fairfax:

Finally, if we on the right have to fall back on Mill Hill, bring your horse down on to the Kilmarsh Road, Pemberton, if it be any way possible.

Pemberton:

Yes—there's a ford there, at the fork if we are upstream.

Ireton:

I'll speak to Whalley, too.

Fairfax:

If at last there should be a general retreat, it is to the west of Naseby, remember.