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"Does it loom over

his face He answered with repressed violence which she did not expect:

"No, it does not o without you I've told you

You know it You don't think I could"

"I assure you I haven't the slightest wish to evade ations," she

said steadily "Even if I could Even if I dared, even if I had to die

for it!"

He looked thunderstruck They stood facing each other at the end of the

saloon Anthony stuttered "Oh no You won't die You don't hed, but she felt angry

"No, I don't ations I

shall live onfeeling a little crushed, nevertheless"

"Crushed!" he repeated "What's crushing you?"

"Your nanimity," she said sharply But her voice was softened after a

time "Yet I don't know There is a perfection in it--do you understand

me, Roderick?--which hed, looked away, and remarked that it was time to put out the lamp

in the saloon The permission was only till ten o'clock

"But you needn't mind that so much in your cabin Just see that the

curtains of the ports are drawn close and that's all The stewardla with his wife I don't know if it was

wise to get rid of Mrs Brown You will have to look after yourself,

Flora"