"Sam, fetch a lantern.

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So you 're the young lady I saw just now inside o' the van, and unless I'm mistaken, a nice job you're responsible for." Tilda nodded.

'Dolph's indiscretion had put her in a desperate fix; but something told her that her best chance with this man was to stand up to him and show fight.
"Is he drowned ?" she asked.
"Drowned?
Not a bit of it.