‘Do we have time to prepare everything?’ I asked incredulously.
‘We’ve no choice. The expedition has now become a race.’
I huffed feeling extremely disconcerted. The expedition was complicated enough under normal conditions, but from that moment on every minute would count.
We went up to the room thinking that the Frenchmen had not recognized us. There wasn’t much to give us away, and as long as they didn’t hear our accents, they would not be able to tell that we were British.
After a while, we went down to the dining room having already planned to go to bed early and then leave early the next morning. But as we entered, we found the French were already there having dinner. Immediately, we went to sit at the other end of the dining room so we would go relatively unnoticed. However, the
