`` you had better eat something more , and here : if you can not go , in a few days , i will have a word with berkley and we will go and have a look around for you , i dare say , '' maximus said , which was very kind , but temeraire did not believe it in the least : berkley was like all the rest of them , quite insistent that laurence was dead , and temeraire was sure he would not be rigorous in any search .