26/29 "I am straight for Edinburgh now. I feel as if my holiday was over. I heard the clack of the looms this morning. I suppose we can be in Leith harbor by Saturday night, Captain ?" "It may be Sunday, sir, if this wind holds. It is an east-windy west-windy coast, and between here and Edinburgh the wind doesn't know its own mind an hour at a time." "Well, then, say Sunday. |