Hitherto he had taken me on my own warrant, and Ben's, without a trace of suspicion: but henceforth I caught him eyeing me furtively from time to time, and overheard him muttering as he went about his preparations.
As he had promised, when the time came for hauling up our small anchor, Mrs.Pengelly emerged from the companion hatch like a _geni_ from a bottle.

She bore two large hunches of saffron cake and handed one to each of us before moving aft to uncover the wheel..