He never criticized by word or look.
Saltash was wont to say that if he decided to turn pirate he believed that Larpent would continue at his post without the smallest change of front.

To raise a protest of any sort would have been absolutely foreign to his nature.

He was made to go straight ahead, to do his duty without question and with perfect self-reliance.
On the present occasion, having cruised from port to port in the Mediterranean for nearly six weeks, it was certainly no ill news to him to hear that Saltash had at last had enough.

The weather was perfect, too perfect for a man of his bull-dog instincts.

He was thoroughly tired of the endless spring sunshine and of the chattering, fashionable crowds that Saltash was wont to assemble on the yacht.