I want to go to explore." But the captain did not give him the lantern, nor did he allow him to go to explore.
"No, sir," said he.

"What we've got to do is to hurry outside and help get supper.

We must wait on ourselves to-night." When supper was over, that evening, and the little party was sitting out on the plateau, gazing over the ocean at the sunlit sky, Mrs.Cliff declared that she wished they could bring their bedding and spread it on the ground out there, and sleep.
"It is dry enough," she said, "and warm enough, and if there is really nothing to fear from animals or men, I don't want ever to go inside of those caves again.

I had such horrible fears and ideas when I was sitting trembling in those dismal vaults, expecting a horde of human devils to burst in upon us at any moment, that the whole place is horrible to me.

Anyway, if I knew that I had to be killed, I would rather be killed out here." The captain smiled.