"What I like about you is that you take things that way." "Is it any use taking them any other way ?" she asked.

"Besides I've never been at all frightened nor particularly concerned.

I've always felt that we were only put here so that we should be out of the way while our captors got safely away with their booty, and as regards my mother, I know her well enough to feel sure that she quickly sized things up, and that she'll have taken measures of her own.

Don't be surprised if we're rescued through her means or if she has set somebody to work to catch the predatory _Pike_." "Good!" said Copplestone.

"But as regards the _Pike_, I wonder if you observed something during the few minutes she was here.