It's 'cause o' you three comin' aboard o' that there yacht last night as I am here--a castaway!" "Well, we're castaways, too, Mr.Chatfield," said Audrey.

"And we can't help believing that it's all your naughty conduct that's made us so.

Why don't you tell the truth ?" Chatfield uttered a few grumpy and inarticulate sounds.
"It'll be a bad day for more than one when I do that--as I will," he muttered presently.

"Oh aye, I 'll tell the truth--when it suits me! But I'll be out o' this first." "You'll never get out of this first or last, until you tell us how you got in," said Vickers, assuming a threatening tone.

"You'd better tell us all about it, you know.