He glazed the door leading to her bath-room and quarter gallery with plate glass; he provided a light easy-chair, slung and fitted with grommets, to be hung on hooks screwed into the beams in the midship of the cabin.

On this Helen could sit and read, and so become insensible to the motion of the ship.

He fitted a small bookcase, with a button, which could be raised when a book might be wanted; he fixed a strike-bell in her maid's cabin communicating with two strikers in Helen's cabin; he selected books, taking care that the voyages and travels were prosperous ones.

No "Seaman's Recorder," "Life-boat Journal," or "Shipwrecks and Disasters in the British Navy." Her cabin was the after-cabin on the starboard side, was entered through the cuddy, had a door communicating with the quarter gallery, two stern windows and a dead-eye on deck.

The maid's cabin was the port after-cabin; doors opened into cuddy and quarter-gallery.