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There was hardly twilight and the ship's electric lights were already

being lit The old Englishreeted her and took the

chair at Mrs Hardcastle's other side That lady was in one of her

chatty moods, when each nicely expressed sentence fell from her lips

directly after the other--all so pleasant and easy to understand No

one ever felt with Millicent he need use an atom of brain These are

the women men like

Tamara pretended to read her book, but she was conscious of the near

proxinetic in the way of a

personality had ever crossed her path as yet

He sat as still as a statue gazing at the sea An uncontrollable desire

to look at him shook Tareat that she almost trembled

Then he spoke: "Have you cat's eyes?" he asked

Nohen there was a legitilued to her book

"Of course not!" she said, icily

"Then of what use to pretend you are reading in this glooleae She would be irritating,

too!