"If they had only waited a few minutes longer!" And then she ran up to Rectus and me, and said: "When are you coming out here again?
Do you think you will come to-morrow, or next day ?" "I don't know," said I."We haven't settled our plans for to-morrow." "Oh, father! father!" she cried, "perhaps they will come out here to-morrow, and you must get me a fishing-line, and we will come and fish all day." We didn't stay to hear what her father said, but posted off to our boat, for we were all beginning to feel pretty hungry.

We took Rectus's fish along, to give to our landlady.

The gentleman and the girl came close after us, as if they were afraid to be left alone on the island.

Their boat was hauled up near ours, and we set off at pretty much the same time.
We went ahead a little, and Menendez turned around and called out to the gentleman that he'd better follow us, for there were some bad shoals in this part of the harbor, and the tide was pretty low.
"All right, my hearty!" called out the gentleman.

"This isn't the first time I've sailed in this harbor.