Is Miss Triscoe the sole sufferer by Burnamy's flirtation?
What is the matter with a little compassion for the pivotal girl ?" "Now, you know you're not serious," said his wife; and though he would not admit this, he could not be seriously sorry for the new interest which she took in the affair.

There was no longer any question of changing their state-room.

Under the tonic influence of the excitement she did not go back to her berth after lunch, and she was up later after dinner than he could have advised.

She was absorbed in Agatha, but in her liberation from her hypochondria, she began also to make a comparative study of the American swells, in the light of her late experience with the German highhotes.

It is true that none of the swells gave her the opportunity of examining them at close range, as the highhotes had done.