RETROSPECT
back we weren't going the right way. Can't you straighten things out by looking at the map?
Navigator: The map won't do us any good just now.
The Woman: What's a map for, then? I'll bet if I had a map I could tell where I was.
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(Twelve Hundred Miles Out.)
The Woman: Why do we have to keep flying in this awful fog? It's perfectly terrible!
Pilot: There's no way of avoiding it.
The Woman: That's a perfectly silly thing to say. When you sail right into a fog and stay in it for hours I should think you'd admit you'd made a mistake and not drive calmly on, pretending it was necessary.
Pilot: We've flown way up in the air to get out of it and we've flown close to the ocean to escape it, but it's no use.
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