People will say anything about any boat.

You know she broke her shaft, once, and once she got caught in the ice." Mrs.March joined him in deriding the superstition of people, and she parted gayly with this over-good young couple.

As soon as they were gone, March knew that she would say: "You must change that ticket, my dear.

We will go in the Norumbia." "Suppose I can't get as good a room on the Norumbia ?" "Then we must stay." In the morning after a night so bad that it was worse than no night at all, she said she would go to the steamship office with him and question them up about the Colmannia.

The people there had never heard she was called an unlucky boat; they knew of nothing disastrous in her history.
They were so frank and so full in their denials, and so kindly patient of Mrs.March's anxieties, that he saw every word was carrying conviction of their insincerity to her.