She always hated Toni.

"Hideous old faun!..." From the very first moment she had suspected that he would prove an enemy.
"But you are master of your own boat," she continued.

"You can do what you want to, and you don't need his permission to sail." When Ulysses furthermore said that he was not sure of his crew either, and that the voyage was impossible, the woman again became furious at him.

She appeared to have grown suddenly ten years older.

To the sailor she seemed to have another face, of an ashy pallor, with furrowed brows, eyes filled with angry tears, and a light foam in the corners of her mouth.
"Braggart....