"So you have come ?" said he.
"You see I have.

But, oh! if I should be seen!" "Seen?
Nonsense! Who is to see you ?" "Captain Vickers, Doctor Pine, anybody." "Not they.

Besides, they've gone off down to Pine's cabin since dinner.
They're all right." Gone off to Pine's cabin! The intelligence struck her with dismay.
What was the cause of such an unusual proceeding?
Surely they did not suspect! "What do they want there ?" she asked.
Maurice Frere was not in the humour to argue questions of probability.
"Who knows?
I don't.

Confound 'em," he added, "what does it matter to us?
We don't want them, do we, Sarah ?" She seemed to be listening for something, and did not reply.

Her nervous system was wound up to the highest pitch of excitement.