My boat will be gone, if you don't run and stop it now.

How did you get me into dry clothes so quick ?" Master Byles Gridley found himself suddenly possessed by a large and luminous idea of the state of things, and made up his mind in a moment as to what he must do.

There was no time to be lost.

Every day, every hour, of Myrtle's absence was not only a source of anxiety and a cause of useless searching but it gave room for inventive fancies to imagine evil.

It was better to run some risk of injury to health, than to have her absence prolonged another day.
"Has this adventure been told about in the village, Mrs.Lindsay ?" "No, we thought it best to wait until she could tell her own story, expecting her return to consciousness every hour, and thinking there might be some reason for her disguise which it would be kinder to keep quiet about." "You know nothing about her, then ?" "Not a word.