You must remember I am no sailor." "Yet you understand boats; you know the sea." "Only a little about small boats; I picked that up in the Philippines; but I have never had to rely entirely upon myself before." "But you are not afraid ?" I laughed softly, hoping to reassure her.
"Not of those things which most affect you, at least.

I can handle the boat all right in this sea and wind, while the darkness possesses no special terror." "Nor the memory of that dead man float--floating somewhere yonder ?" "I have hardly thought about him.

I have seen so many dead men in the past three years I have become hardened possibly.

You must n't let your mind dwell on that grewsome incident.

It was unavoidable, our only means of escape.