"Keep what you've got to say till I come to you.

I can't have the details of an interesting love affair shouted across a stretch of water." The sails were made up and the yacht safely moored.

Meldon hustled Major Kent into the punt, and pulled rapidly for the beach.

The punt's keel grated on the gravel.

Meldon seized the painter in his hand and leaped ashore.
"Now," he said to Callaghan, "trot out your news.