All the more reason for staying indoors." "The youngsters from the Hall are out in it." "Well, can I lend you an umbrella ?" "Don't be an ass, Brandram.

They are out in an open boat at sea." The doctor jumped to his feet.
"By Jove!" he exclaimed.
"They went to the island this morning, and will have started back a quarter of an hour ago." "They've caught it already, then," said the doctor.

"Look!" The horizon was lurid with clouds.

Pulpit Island out at sea seemed, instead of three miles distant, to have come in to within a mile.

The channel between, still gleaming in the sun, was struck by a bar of shadow which seemed like a scar on the surface.