Your wife might call you her dear little husband, you know.' 'I should like to catch her at it,' growled the Captain, but he stopped scowling.
'It's a rich trade,' he went on.

'For cloth ONCE dipped, second-best glass, and the rough images our young artists carve for practice, the barbarian King in Tessos lets us work the silver mines.

We get so much silver there that we leave them our iron anchors and come back with silver ones.' 'How splendid!' said Robert.

'Do go on.

What's cloth once dipped ?' 'You MUST be barbarians from the outer darkness,' said the Captain scornfully.