Just when things finally seemed to become normal and peaceful, she had to go out and arrange this behind his back!

“Alice, make for shore! It’s dangerous!” he shouted, ignoring the protest from both his own crew and that of Alice’s boat. The smugness of Alice and the other women only added to his indignation.

But when the ex-sailor showed up at his side, Tobias finally let it go – partly because there was indeed nothing he could do and the rest of the crew relied on him pulling his weight, and partly because the sailor looked pretty strong and it seemed wiser not to provoke him. “Right. Sorry.” He moved back to his original position.

But just then there was a splash back in the harbour, just out enough for Tobias to see that his brother had fallen into the water. Tobias ran to the side of the boat again. “Nathan! Someone get ‘im!” he shouted anxiously.