But she was a long time coming.

Even after she got so near that we could plainly see her hull and masts and sails, she did not seem to be sailing directly toward us.

Indeed, sometimes I thought she didn't notice us.
She would go far off one way, and then off the other way.
"Oh, why don't she come right to us ?" cried Corny, beating her hands on her knees.

"She isn't as near now as she was half an hour ago." This was the first time that Corny had let herself out in this way, but I don't wonder she did it.

The captain explained that the ship couldn't sail right to us, because the wind was not in the proper direction for that.