No answer.
"Speak! Speak, Alice, for I cannot bear this! The Rome would sail without me!"
Alice did speak. The Rome did sail without him.
Transcriber's Notes:
Inconsistencies in hyphenation were not corrected.
In the original book, sometimes the first words of each chapter were in small caps and sometimes they were not. That inconsistency was preserved in this version.
On page 8, the quotation mark was deleted after "on this side of the road."