Yet these two pulled long faces and even gave hostile glances to the poop.
The cook and the steward might have been more directly concerned.

But the steward used to remark on occasion, 'Oh, she gives no extra trouble,' with scrupulous fairness of the most gloomy kind.

He was rather a silent man with a great sense of his personal worth which made his speeches guarded.

The cook, a neat man with fair side whiskers, who had been only three years in the ship, seemed the least concerned.

He was even known to have inquired once or twice as to the success of some of his dishes with the captain's wife.