1. There is very little that Hornblower wished he could have said to Bush. So much of their friendship was based on instinctive emtional sympathy and closeness that even for Hornblower, the more articulate of the two of them, half the things that passed through his mind could never have been expressed.

Still: "I've decided to send one of the bomber boat captains."

2. "I'd be much obliged if you'd come visit us at Smallbridge when you have the time, Bush."

3. "Splendid job taking the squadron home, Captain Bush. Absolutely splendid."

4. "Per-perhaps we d-don't, hic, need girls, William."

5. From a dream, and which Barbara heard him attempt in the days after Caudebec: in a never-used tenor,

We won't go home until morning,
We won't go home until morning,
We won't go home until morning,
Till daylight doth appear.