Delphine Quotes

″‘Perhaps the elephant will turn back into a white hen,’ murmured Delphine. ‘After all, she only did it for the game. When we’ve stopped playing Noah’s Ark there won’t be any reason for her to go on being an elephant.‘”

″‘You must all behave like the cat. Look at that way he’s purring!’ It was quite true. The cat was purring as though nothing were happening, because he knew that the Flood was only a game.”

“Be quiet, pig, or I’ll tell the elephant to eat you!”

“They began to wonder if the Ark were really a game, and could almost believe that the Flood was real.”

“I can’t tell you what a help it is to know that you trust me. And you must go on trusting me.”

“Delphine held herself back from running to the window, because after all she was the captain, and she must not show that she was frightened.”