As much as that, anyhow.

Wonder what he'd say if he knew his son had been takin' you for a mornin' ride ?" "Probably that it would have been much better to have left me where you found me." The captain's jolly face grew serious.
"No, no!" he protested.

"Not so bad as that.

Dad wouldn't drown anybody, not even a Regular minister.

He's a pretty square-built old craft, even though his spiritual chart may be laid out different from yours--and mine." "From yours?
Why, I supposed--" "Yes, I know.