She protested that she knew nothing at all about any boat larger than a rowboat.

To be the captain of a scow, was something of a responsibility.

She knew that she would have to be captain in fact as well as in name, and that the navigation and protection of the craft would be on the shoulders of Jane McCarthy and herself.
"There is one thing I do not know, Tommy," answered Harriet.

"I don't know how this captain is ever going to get along with the crew she has.
I fear she will have to ship a new crew.

Perhaps you'll be glad of that, eh, dears ?" "Tommy would be willing if, as she already has said, she could be the whole passenger list," chuckled Miss Elting.
The girls joked and talked until the night had fallen.