––Mi apellido es Sawyer, y el de ella Dennis, Dennis por Tom Dennis, su marido, un chico apañadito mientras está navegando ––los jefes, por cierto, lo traen en palmitas––, pero no tanto en tierra, a causa de las mujeres y los bares...
"My name is Sawyer—her's is Dennis, which Tom Dennis married her—and a smart, clean lad, too, as long as he's at sea, and no steward in the company more thought of; but when on shore, what with the women and what with liquor shops——"