As for capability, I tell you I can sail all around the average broken captain or promoted able seaman you find in the South Seas.

And you know I am a navigator." "But being my partner," he said coolly, "makes you none the less a lady." "Thank you for telling me that my contemplated conduct is unladylike." She arose, tears of anger and mortification in her eyes, and went over to the phonograph.
"I wonder if all men are as ridiculous as you ?" she said.
He shrugged his shoulders and smiled.

Discussion was useless--he had learned that; and he was resolved to keep his temper.

And before the day was out she capitulated.

She was to go to Sydney on the first steamer, purchase the schooner, and sail back with an island skipper on board.