"We are short of them on the plantation as it is." "_We_ ?" Tudor asked quickly.

"Then you are a firm or a partnership?
I understood at Guvutu that you were alone, that you had lost your partner." Sheldon inclined his head toward Joan, and as he spoke she felt that he had become a trifle stiff.
"Miss Lackland has become interested in the plantation since then.

But to return to the boys.

We can't spare them, and besides, they would be of little use.

You couldn't get them to accompany you beyond Binu, which is a short day's work with the boats from here.