You, Mr.Sheldon, as my partner, I cannot permit to desert Berande and your work out of a mistaken notion of courtesy.

If you won't permit me to be skipper, I won't permit your galivanting over the sea as protector of young women who don't need protection.

And as for you, Captain Young, you know very well that you just left Guvutu this morning, that you are bound for Marau, and that you said yourself that in two hours you are getting under way again." "But may I not see you safely across ?" Tudor asked, a pleading note in his voice that rasped on Sheldon's nerves.
"No, no, and again no," she cried.

"You've all got your work to do, and so have I.

I came to the Solomons to work, not to be escorted about like a doll.