That was why you broke training rules.

It was the only way to make us children understand." "You've deserted in the heat of the battle, Miss Lackland, and gone over to the enemy," Tudor said plaintively.
But she was not listening.

Instead, she was looking intently across the compound and out to sea.

They followed her gaze, and saw a green light and the loom of a vessel's sails.
"I wonder if it's the _Martha_ come back," Tudor hazarded.
"No, the sidelight is too low," Joan answered.

"Besides, they've got the sweeps out.