Towards the afternoon this exercise, coupled with reflection, cooled Reginald Redding鈥檚 spirit while it warmed his body, and at last he deemed it right to pause for the purpose of letting the men have a pipe and a mouthful of food. While they were busy refreshing themselves he leant over the stern, gazed down into the water, and brooded over his supposed wrongs.
Won鈥檛 that be a sort of humiliating confession?鈥� urged the little man timidly.