Most of the passengers had by this time got glasses of one kind or another.
'See! He's putting the cap on the child's head.

He's a cool one that.
Fancy him thinking of a red cap at such a time!' 'Ay! we could see that cap, when it might be we couldn't see anything else.' 'Look!' this from an old sailor standing by his boat, 'how he's raisin' in the water.

He's keeping his body between her an' the spindrift till the squall has passed.

That would choke them both in a wind like this if he didn't know how to guard against it.

He's all right; he is! The little maid is safe wi' him.' 'Oh, bless you! Bless you for those words,' said the mother, turning towards him.