“Then you will comply.”
“And after?”
“After?” she cried. “Who knows? Many things may happen to deliver us from this dreadful situation; but, if you defy the crew, and they put you and my countrymen into a boat, we are surely lost.”
I assented with a gesture.
“They are ignorant of navigation?” said she.
“Utterly.”
“Could not you steal the brig to a part of some coast where we are likely to fall in with ships of war?”
“If they suspected treachery they’d hang me at the yardarm.”
“Ave Maria! Where is this New Holland?”
“It is very far from here.”