"Indeed ?" "Yes, because she believes we are going to die--every one of us.

It takes pluck to keep going when you've got that sort of thing to face, doesn't it ?" Her gesture took in the dozen or more men within range of her vision.
"It should take no more pluck to keep a woman going than a man, my friend.

You do not call yourself plucky, do you?
I do not call myself plucky.

On the contrary, I call myself a coward.

I am afraid to stay in my stateroom.