When Nicky Easton had rung Marie Louise’s bell he had not imagined how much help Marie Louise would render him in giving him the precious privilege of meeting her unprepossessing brother-in-law; nor had she dreamed what peril she was preparing for Davidge in planning to secure for him and his shipyard the services of this same Jake, as lazy and as amiable as any side-winder rattlesnake that ever basked in the sunlit sand.
BOOK IV
AT THE SHIPYARD
There was something hallowed and awesome about it all. It had a cathedral majesty.