"Yes."
"No. Nearing it, but not near it yet."
"How soon shall we be?"
"If the wind holds, I should think in two hours."
"Where do we stop?"
"At the sloop's quarters — the old mill —about two miles down the river from Shahweetah."
"Why wouldn't she carry us straight up to the place?"
"It would be inconvenient landing there, and would very much delay the sloop's getting to her moorings."
"I'll pay for that! —"
"We can get home as well in another way."