The captain told him to go on, and sat down.

One way or another, the captain told himself, they would get the job done.

You don't like something, tell the captain to his face.

He wasn't going to give up, the captain told himself.

"Perhaps the captain could tell me what I did wrong."

The captain told me that I would learn about my other job soon enough.

I should have seen this coming, the captain told himself.

There is something wrong with him, the captain told himself.

"The captain has told us a great deal about you."

"I think the captain should tell her first story right now," the woman went on, looking at me again.