Chapter 4: Tomorrow

Answer: While talking about his son, Hagberd seemed hopeful that his son would come home soon. She once had tried pityingly to throw some doubt on that hope resulting in disappointment. But the effect of her attempt had scared her very much. All at once over that man’s face, there came an expression of horror and disbelief, as though he had seen a crack open out in the sky. “The sea can’t keep my son, and there’s nothing to prevent him from coming back!” said the old Captain. His eyes began to wander. But the next day, Bessie humoured him in silence, listening patiently by the fence.

Answer: Mr Carvil was an insane widowed boat-builder whose blindness had set in years before in the full flush of business. He was a man of an evil reputation as a domestic tyrant. He had a bad temper and would get uncontrollable very soon and would start shouting with a pouty face.