when he had my eyes , he asked in a soft voice that was not his gentle soft but an altogether different kind of soft , `` would you like to tell me , when i believe while you were trembling in my arms after seeing three men die , that i informed you specifically your uncle is a threat , why you would board a boat , sit in it while it was rowed ashore and attend a man who , it is highly likely whether he 's acted on it or not , wishes you dead ? ''