To-morrow I hope you'll both come and dine with me." "Delighted, I'm sure," declared Hornby.

"To eat ashore is quite a treat when one has been boxed up on board for some time.

So we'll accept, won't we, Hylton ?" "Certainly," replied the other; and then we began chatting about the peril of the previous night, Hornby telling me how he had copied the two letters of thanks in Italian and sent them to their respective addresses.
"Phil blasphemed like a Levant skipper when he copied those Italian words!" laughed Chater.

"He had made three copies of each letter before he could get all the lingo in accordance with your copy." "I've been the whole afternoon at them--confound them!" declared the owner of the _Lola_ with a laugh.

"But, of course, I didn't want to make a lot of errors in spelling.