Besides, we can't afford to pay him what he's clearing on the _Minerva_.
Sparrowhawk is a good man--to take orders.

He has no initiative.

He's an able sailor, but he can't command.

I tell you I was nervous all the time he had charge of the _Flibberty_ at Poonga-Poonga when I had to stay by the _Martha_." And so it had gone.

No name proposed was satisfactory, and, moreover, Sheldon had been surprised by the accuracy of her judgments.