"You would think it that, naturally.

No, Captain, it isn't the engagement.

It's more serious than that." "More serious than--_more_ serious! Why, what on earth?
Hey?
Mr.
Sylvester, has that rock-lighthouse business come to somethin' after all ?" The lawyer nodded.

"It has," he replied.
"I want to know! And I'd almost forgot it, not hearin' from you.

It's a rock, too, I judge, by the looks of your face.