( Of course. Of course she is short of temper, poorly calculating. Negligent, in the way of people accustomed to land, who take for granted that the floor won't shift beneath their feet. That the world stays for them. )

And I would thank you not to drown or walk my plank. ( Still polite, still far too civil. How well they are both doing. ) I would not want to give an account for you. People talk. Unfairly.