I'll be glad of your help;" and I dropped into my boat and pulled out into the wind, and ran up my lug for home.
"So you saw Torode himself, Phil?
And what is he like ?" asked my grandfather, as I told them the day's doings.
"Big, black, grim-looking fellow.

Just what you'd expect.

On the whole I'm not sorry I'm going with John Ozanne.

He seems pleased to have me too, and that's something." "I'd much sooner think of you with him," said my mother.

"I know nothing of Monsieur Torode, but nobody seems to like him." George Hamon said much the same thing, and spoke highly of John Ozanne as a cautious seaman, which I well knew him to be.
Jeanne Falla laughed heartily when I told her of my visit to Brecqhou, which I did very fully.
"Mon Gyu, Phil, mon gars, but you're getting on! And you told her to her face before them all that you wanted to marry her?
It's as odd a style of wooing as ever I heard." "Well, you see, I wanted there to be no mistake about it, Aunt Jeanne.