`` Holland is pretty wet , so they say , but we should be able to find some dry spots . '' She did not laugh . `` You know what I mean , '' she observed . `` To-morrow night at twelve o'clock we shall be far out on the vasty deep . '' `` We shall be on the ` Princess Eulalie , ' '' I answered . `` Go to sleep . '' Neither of us spoke the truth .
` ` Holland is pretty wet , so they say , but we should be able to find some dry spots . '' She did not laugh . ` ` You know what I mean , '' she observed . ` ` To - morrow night at twelve o'clock we shall be far out on the vasty deep . '' ` ` We shall be on the ` Princess Eulalie , ' '' I answered . ` ` Go to sleep . '' Neither of us spoke the truth .