The boy, however, when she confided her doubts to him, laughed at the idea.
"Why, you know, Mother," he said, "we agreed that I had a much greater chance, as a boy, of going about unsuspected, than I should have as a man.

Besides, we could never have let Father remain any longer, without trying to get him out.
"No, no, Mother, you know we have gone through it over and over again, and talked about every chance.

We have had a first-rate voyage, and everything is going on just as we could have wished, and it would never do to begin to have doubts now.

We have both felt confident, all along.

It seems to me that, of all things, we must keep on being confident, at any rate until there is something to give us cause to doubt." On the following morning, they landed in a surf boat, and were fortunate in getting ashore without being drenched.