But, my god-father, wot sort of ijjit axed you to stow yourself away in the lazareet?
Steady now; you ain't a-goin' to faint, are you ?" Coke's amiability came too late.

His squat figure and red face suddenly loomed into a gigantic indistinctness in the girl's eyes.

She would have fallen to the deck had not the captain's strong hands clutched her by the shoulders.
"Hi! Below there!" he yelled.

"Tumble up, some of you!" Hozier was the first to gain the bridge.

He had followed the progress of events with sufficient accuracy to realize that Miss Iris Yorke had met with a distinct rebuff by the skipper, and, judging from his own experience of her physical weakness when she emerged into daylight, he was not surprised to hear that she had fainted.
"'Ere, take 'old," gurgled Coke, who had nearly swallowed the cigar in his surprise at Iris's unforeseen collapse.