Listen: there is no harm in the drifting hither.

What sent her adrift ?" "I have sailed for a month with Danes," I said.

"I have met with a man who once set a girl adrift." As I said that I looked him meaningly in the face, and he grew pale.
"So," he said slowly, "you have heard that tale also.

There was a Danish chapman who came to our haven at Mundesley, where I live, and told it there to me.

That was a year after the boat was found.
I bade him be silent, but there was no need.