"No, I am not mad."
"You think my crew will carry me away by force, do you?"
"It is very probable. Besides, when you are with the sailors again, you will not have the strength to resist them."
"I will not?"
"No."
"Not after the reasons I have just stated to you? I shall be back here by five o'clock, I tell you, and before my daughter has even discovered my absence. Your fears are absurd. Come, I say."
"You insist?"
"Yes, I do."
"That which is to be, will be," said Segoffin, shaking his head dubiously, but following his employer for all that.
After inquiring how Sabine was feeling, and learning that she had fallen asleep, Cloarek started for Havre in company with his head gunner.