Was she making game of him?
Or did there lurk in her the insidious unhealthfulness of unwomanliness?
Or was it merely a case of blank, staring, sentimental, idiotic innocence?
"I have told you," he began stiffly, "that recruiting on Malaita is impossible for a woman, and that is all I care to say--or dare." "And I tell you, in turn, that it is nothing of the sort.

I've sailed the _Miele_ here, master, if you please, all the way from Tahiti--even if I did lose her, which was the fault of your Admiralty charts.

I am a navigator, and that is more than your Solomons captains are.

Captain Young told me all about it.

And I am a seaman--a better seaman than you, when it comes right down to it, and you know it.