“Then what is to be done?”
“The only thing seems to me to be that we had better say we were carried off by the Malays.”
“Which is a fact,” said Hilton.
“And we were taken to a place that we had never seen before.”
“Another fact,” said Hilton.
“And kept prisoners.”
“Which is another fact.”
“I think that’s best,” said Chumbley. “It would be horrible to go and take revenge upon this woman.”
“But she deserves to be well punished.”
“Well, we are punishing her,” said Chumbley, “by coming away, and leaving her in a horrible stew, for she is safe to imagine that we shall go back with a company, and destroy her place. Besides, she will never dare to show her face at the settlement again.”