"I cannot."
"In that case settle your reckoning with the sea."
"The wind ought to change."
"It will not change all night."
"Why not?"
"Because it is a wind twelve hundred leagues in length."
"Make headway against such a wind! Impossible."
"To the west, I tell you."
"I'll try, but in spite of everything she will fall off."
"That's the danger."