Thought that might work. [People are desperate. God forbid someone turn him into a stove or something. That'd be such a waste of a personable automaton.] I'll take the favor, but there's nothing on that ferry for me, and I did my share of diving to make sure we don't all starve. You're saved from having to go back into the water.

[He pauses.] You can swim like that or d'you just use the other form? ...Honestly, I wasn't even paying attention to anything but what I was doing and giving Aziraphale a dressing down for being stupid.