When at last Crozier and Jopson come to understand each other, it's already too late. It's been too late for three long years.
Fitzjames does what he does best.
There must be easier ways to pass the time than this, but Crozier isn't interested.
Like a wolf, Hickey senses Crozier's weakness; like a wolf, he descends on him. Like a wolf, he can hardly do anything else.
Fitzjames and Crozier take comfort in each other, despite everything.
There are few obstacles Fitzjames can't conquer.
Crozier's past has come back to haunt him before, but not quite like this.
Scenes from the private affairs of one Cornelius Hickey.
A treatise on the use of the riding-whip, or, Fitzjames and Crozier celebrate their safe return with a bit of recreational discipline.
The caulker's mate on Terror is pressed into service for a more personal problem of its Captain's.