There was the risk of getting aground on some shallow patches.

It would be best to spend the rest of the night on board.
There was really no opposition.

The professor smoking a pipe, and very comfortable in an ulster buttoned over his tropical clothes, was the first to speak from his long chair.
"Most excellent advice." Next to him Miss Moorsom assented by a long silence.

Then in a voice as of one coming out of a dream-- "And so this is Malata," she said.

"I have often wondered.