[Enters. Softly weeping.] Kaps! Kaps! [Goes to his desk and sits down opposite to him.] I feel so miserable——
Kaps.
Very unwise, Miss. Many ships go down. The Good Hope scarcely counts. I have it here. Where is it? where is it? The statement of Veritas for October—October alone; lost, 105 sailing vessels and 30 steamships—that’s a low estimate; fifteen hundred dead in one month. [Pointing to the sea.] Yes, when you see it as it appears today, so smooth, with the floating gulls, you wouldn’t believe that it murders so many people.
[Enter Jo and Cobus.]
Clementine.
[To Jo and Cobus, who sit alone in a dazed way.] Come in, Jo. Jo! [Jo slowly shakes her head.]
Cob.
[Trembling.] We have just run from home—for Saart just as I said—just as I said——
[Enter Bos.]
Bos.