'Let me off for a few minutes, Captain, and I'll take them to my place and see if my good woman can't fit them up in something a little less outlandish than their present rig.

Then they can have a look round without being mobbed.

May I go ?' 'Oh yes, if you like,' said the Captain, 'but don't be all day.' The man led them through the dark arch into the town.

And it was very different from London.

For one thing, everything in London seems to be patched up out of odds and ends, but these houses seemed to have been built by people who liked the same sort of things.