Directly you have landed I shall take the Osprey to Gosport, and lay her up there.

I need not stop to see that done.

I can trust Hawkins to see her stripped and everything taken on shore; and, of course, the people at the yard are responsible for hauling her up.

I shall probably be in town the same evening; but, if you like, and think that your mother is only stopping for you, we will go across to Southampton at once." "Oh, no, I am sure that she would not like that; and I don't want to lose my last three days here.

Of course, when we get home at the end of next week, and you are settled down there, too, you will be a great deal over at Greendale, but it won't be as it is here." "Not by a long way.