"You know very well that there are none on the island, and after all you said about their swarming about in a lobster bed, Miss King will naturally expect us to bring her back a few." "No, she won't.

Not when she knows that they've been feeding on the disgusting and half-decayed dead sheep.

She'd hate to see one." "What made you think of saying there was a dead sheep, J.J. ?" "I had to think of something," said Meldon, "or else she'd have come with us.

You contradicted every word I said, and gave the show away, although you knew very well the extreme importance of giving Simpkins his chance." "I don't think he looked much like taking it when we left." "No, he didn't.

A more helpless, incompetent idiot than Simpkins I never came across.