Quick! As if anybody could be quick enough.
'Aren't you going to do something ?' I asked.

'Yes.

Clear out,' he snarled over his shoulder.
'"I don't think I understood then what he meant.

The other two had picked themselves up by that time, and they rushed together to the boat.
They tramped, they wheezed, they shoved, they cursed the boat, the ship, each other--cursed me.

All in mutters.