"Too bad," he said, and sighed. "A steamer is a living thing too, I
think, but less like a woman; going straight where she is going like a
man; more straightforward. I like a steamer well enough. But Fergus
agrees with you. And Fergus has to go in a steamer, and it almost breaks
his heart. He is to command her." And he waved at the huge hull towering
above us, for we were at the gangway.