“I cannot understand how my boat, which I fastened securely to the stump of a willow-tree, can have drifted away.”
“Dashed mysterious.”
“I begin to suspect that it was deliberately set loose by some mischievous person.”
“Oh, I say, no, hardly likely, that. You’d have seen them doing it.”
“No, Mr. Wooster. For the bushes form an effective screen. Moreover, rendered drowsy by the unusual warmth of the afternoon, I dozed off for some little time almost immediately I reached the island.”
This wasn’t the sort of thing I wanted his mind dwelling on, so I changed the subject.
“Wet, isn’t it, what?” I said.
“I had already observed it,” said the Right