"Vienna!"
"And how do you propose to get there?"
"You can lend me an escort?"
"Impossible! You would want six battalions to fight off the rearguard of Gustavus, or the left wing of the Saxons."
"But you have just let Colonel Charteris go with a mere handful!"
"He will ride the faster! Colonel Charteris is a soldier, and the very devil for getting into trouble and out of it."
"But the Emperor's daughter?"
"Your Highness, were you the daughter of twenty emperors it would still be impossible."
"You think that I should not arrive at Vienna in safety!"