Did you come out to look at the wreck ?" "Do you think that I am mad ?" he asked, not without indignation.

"Should I make a journey at night, in a November fog, with every chance of a gale coming up, to the Sunk Rocks in this cockle-shell, and alone, merely to look at the place where, as I understood rather vaguely, a foreign tramp steamer had gone down ?" "Well, it does seem rather odd.

But why else did you come?
Were you fishing?
Men will risk a great deal for fishing, I know, I have seen that in Norway." "Why do you pretend not to understand, Miss Fregelius?
You must know perfectly well that I came to look for you." "Indeed," she answered candidly, "I knew nothing of the sort.

How did you find out that I was still on the ship, or that the ship was still above water?
And even if you knew both, why should you risk your life just on the faint chance of rescuing a girl whom you never saw ?" "I can't quite tell you; but your father in his delirium muttered some words which made me suspect the truth, and a sailor who could speak a little bad French said that the Trondhjem was lost upon some rocks.
Well, these are the only rocks about here; and as the whole story was too vague to carry to the lifeboat people I thought that I would come to look.

So you see it is perfectly simple." "So simple, Mr.Monk, that I do not understand it in the least.