At these meetings we talked the matter over; told our hopes and fears, and the difficulties discovered or imagined; and, like men of sense, we counted the cost of the enterprise to which we were committing ourselves.
He recounts the secret meetings held to discuss their escape, where they shared their hopes and fears, demonstrating their careful planning.
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