"What sort of a chap is Brazier?
I don't know him very well." "Well, Oscar's one of the sort who will do anything just as long as he thinks he doesn't have to," replied Joe.

"If we could get him to come along and tell him that he--um--simply must _not_ ask to do the cooking, why--there you are!" "Merely a matter of diplomacy," laughed Steve.

"Well, we might have Brazier instead of Hanford--or Neil." "Why not have them all if the boat will hold six ?" asked Joe.

"Seems to me the more we have the less each of us will have to do.

I mean," he continued above the laughter, "that--um--a division of labour--" "We get you," said Perry.