Since you didn't want it, I wasn't going to let anybody else have the satisfaction of reading it before it was published, so I just threw it away because it is safer in the sea than knocking about in my cabin.

If you hadn't seen me throw it overboard you would never have believed that I had.

You're not much given to believing me, anyway.

I've noticed that.

Are you, now ?' 'Oh, it was not the book!' Margaret turned from him and made a step forward so that she faced the sharp wind.