"I need no longer feel as though I'd murdered a child!" "I should think you were always losing things," Helen remarked, looking at him meditatively.
"I don't lose things," said Hewet.

"I mislay them.

That was the reason why Hirst refused to share a cabin with me on the voyage out." "You came out together ?" Helen enquired.
"I propose that each member of this party now gives a short biographical sketch of himself or herself," said Hirst, sitting upright.

"Miss Vinrace, you come first; begin." Rachel stated that she was twenty-four years of age, the daughter of a ship-owner, that she had never been properly educated; played the piano, had no brothers or sisters, and lived at Richmond with aunts, her mother being dead.
"Next," said Hirst, having taken in these facts; he pointed at Hewet.

"I am the son of an English gentleman.