I should like to have him with me until my father comes back." He turned, and then stopped for an instant.

He said in a clear voice: "I will go and get the shilling changed." And then he hurried away.
He was gone a long time, and Kate could not understand it.

Surely the Sarah Williams was not so big a ship that it would take all this time to look for Ben Greenway.

But he did come back, and his face seemed even less ruddy than when she had last seen it.

He came up close to her, and began handling his fruit.
"I don't want to frighten you," he said, "but I must tell you about things.