"We shouldn't have been here for hours if we had waited for the train." "I met Captain Granet this morning by accident," Olive explained, as she stepped on deck, "and he insisted on bringing us down." "I hope I'm not in the way at all ?" Granet asked anxiously.

"If I am, you have only to say the word and put me on shore, and I'll wait, with pleasure, until the young ladies come off.

I have a lot of pals down here, too, I could look up." "Don't be silly," Conyers replied.

"Our dear old lady friend Thomson isn't here to worry so I think we can make you free of the ship.
Come along down and try a cocktail.

Mind your heads.