If it had been Burnamy we could have brought them together at once, just when she has seen so clearly that she was in the wrong, and is feeling all broken up.

There wouldn't have been any difficulty about his being in the second-cabin.

We could have contrived to have them meet somehow.

If the worst came to the worst you could have lent him money to pay the difference, and got him into the first-cabin." "I could have taken that six-hundred-dollar room for him," said March, "and then he could have eaten with the swells." She answered that now he was teasing; that he was fundamentally incapable of taking anything seriously; and in the end he retired before the stewardess bringing her first coffee, with a well-merited feeling that if it had not been for his triviality the young Lancashireman would really have been Burnamy.
LXXV.
Except for the first day and night out from Queenstown, when the ship rolled and pitched with straining and squeaking noises, and a thumping of the lifted screws, there was no rough weather, and at last the ocean was livid and oily, with a long swell, on which she swayed with no perceptible motion save from her machinery.
Most of the seamanship seemed to be done after dark, or in those early hours when March found the stewards cleaning the stairs, and the sailors scouring the promenades.

He made little acquaintance with his fellow-passengers.