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People boxed up together in a small boat like the _Lorna_ react on one another in a most surprising way. Bad temper or good humour in an individual is felt by his companions as it never would be ashore. On board the _Lorna_ that night, down in the cabin under the swinging lamp, Sam was the wet blanket.
He sat with his nose in a book while the other two talked. He did not seem to be reading so much as brooding. Bobby had given up the whole problem of Sam and Martia, and Sam's fits of depression, and so on. The girl had as good as told him that there was nothing between her and the skipper and he left it at that. The expedition up to this had put everything else aside, love included, and would do so till the English coast was reached and the contract with Behrens completed.