Neville tells of his brother Victor, who dreamed of being the biggest businessman in the island and became it, and confides in Neville the sleepless nights, the distrust of his brothers in business, and the overnight quarter-million-dollar cable deals on refrigerated ships from Australia.

When the same minister refused to baptize Neville's sixth brother because the two sea captains standing as godfathers were a Presbyterian and a Methodist, his father took the child, sprinkled water on him himself and named him Fred - which remains his name, Fred Goddard.