This was considered a sort of disloyal falling away from the ruling feeling.
The mate's annoyance was yet the easiest to understand.

As he let it out to Powell before the first week of the passage was over: 'You can't expect me to be pleased at being chucked out of the saloon as if I weren't good enough to sit down to meat with that woman.' But he hastened to add: 'Don't you think I'm blaming the captain.

He isn't a man to be found fault with.

You, Mr.Powell, are too young yet to understand such matters.' Some considerable time afterwards, at the end of a conversation of that aggrieved sort, he enlarged a little more by repeating: 'Yes! You are too young to understand these things.

I don't say you haven't plenty of sense.