Miss Colton spoke first.
"Why, Victor!" she said, "it is--" "What ?" asked her companion.

Then, looking at me, "Oh! it's you, is it ?" I did not answer.

Luck was certainly against me.

No matter where I went, on land or water, I was fated to meet these two.
Victor, apparently, was thinking the same thing.

"By Jove!" he observed; "Mabel, we seem destined to.