Captain Obed stepped in front of her.
"Just a minute, Hannah! Heave to! Come up into the wind a jiffy.

Let's get this thing straight.

Kenelm, do you mean--" The gentleman addressed seemed to mean very little, just then.

But Imogene's coolness was quite unruffled and again she answered for him.
"He means just what he said," she declared, "and what he said was plain enough, I should think.

I don't know why there should be so much row about it.