And the canvas we got on her! We might have done better than that." "It did not seem so at the time," I answered, laughing.

"It is easy to think now of what might have been done." "So it is.

But for all my days I shall feel it in my bones that I threw the ship away.

I shall dream that I am weathering the island.
Two ships I have lost running." "One by war and the other by sheer misfortune," I answered.

"You make too much of it altogether." He laughed ruefully.