“But I don’t think they’re going to say it was your fault. Worse things’ve happened to a lot of other guys.”
“It wasn’t my fault, this thing, was it?”
“I don’t think so. You ain’t no weather prophet.”
“There wasn’t any way for me to tell that there’d be a williwaw.”
“Well, this is the season for them.”
“But how could I know that it was going to happen? We were cleared at the Big Harbor.”
“It’s on their neck then.”
“I hope so, it’d better be. I couldn’t help it if we got caught like that, got caught in a williwaw.”
“Sure, sure, it was no fault of yours.”
Evans looked out of the window. He was getting a little worried. The thought that he might be held responsible for taking a boat out and getting it wrecked in williwaw weather was beginning to bother him. Bervick was soothing, though.