They posed amiably as common allies in the fight to keep the islanders from securing a single point of vantage during the year.
"If they hadn't been in such a hurry to get married," Britt would lament.
"Do you know, I don't believe a man should marry before he's thirty, a woman twenty-six," Saunders would observe in return.
"You're right, Saunders.

I agree with you.

I was married twice before I was thirty," reflected Britt on one occasion.
"Ah," sympathised Saunders.

"You left a wife at home, then ?" "Two of 'em," said Britt, puffing dreamily.

"But they are other men's wives now." Saunders was half an hour grasping the fact that Britt had been twice divorced.
Meanwhile, it may be well to depict the situation from the enemy's point of view--the enemy being the islanders as a unit.