"If it were, the poor fellow's dead by now," said Brack. "They did say at the time it was the woman, the wife, that got him into his trouble. Women's generally at the bottom of these things. I believe she was a mighty fine woman too; but she must have been wicked."
Lenise was restless.
"Don't you think we had better put back?" she said.
"I thought you wanted to row round the men-o'-war," he said.
"It is too far; I want to be back for lunch."
"Shall I turn round?"
"Yes, please."
"Do you think they'll catch the man who escaped?" she asked before they reached the landing steps.
"I think he's dead or they'd have got him afore now," said Brack.
She gave a sigh of relief, as she handed him half a sovereign.