HERLAND (Wisehouse Classics - Original Edition 1909-1916). Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Van! If it isn’t there, we’ll find our way down somehow—the boat’s there, I guess.”

      It was hard on Terry, so hard that he finally persuaded us to consider a plan of escape. It was difficult, it was highly dangerous, but he declared that he’d go alone if we wouldn’t go with him, and of course we couldn’t think of that.

      It appeared he had made a pretty careful study of the environment. From our end window that faced the point of the promontory we could get a fair idea of the stretch of wall, and the drop below. Also from the roof we could make out more, and even, in one place, glimpse a sort of path below the wall.