CHAPTER V.
She was not able to follow up her observations, however, or to come to any conclusion, for by one of those accidents which are liable to happen at sea, the whole course of their lives was now put out of order.
Even at tea the floor rose beneath their feet and pitched too low again, and at dinner the ship seemed to groan and strain as though a lash were descending.

She who had been a broad-backed dray-horse, upon whose hind-quarters pierrots might waltz, became a colt in a field.

The plates slanted away from the knives, and Mrs.Dalloway's face blanched for a second as she helped herself and saw the potatoes roll this way and that.

Willoughby, of course, extolled the virtues of his ship, and quoted what had been said of her by experts and distinguished passengers, for he loved his own possessions.

Still, dinner was uneasy, and directly the ladies were alone Clarissa owned that she would be better off in bed, and went, smiling bravely.
Next morning the storm was on them, and no politeness could ignore it.
Mrs.Dalloway stayed in her room.