"Will you call him off?"
Sam studied her ankles, then resumed the methodical filling of his pipe.
"What brought you here?" he asked after a pause.
"I came in a rowboat."
"Alone?"
"Certainly."
"I didn't see the boat."
"It drifted away—I wouldn't be here except for that."
"What did you come for?"
Rosalind gritted her teeth and wondered if the dog would really bite.