Then at a picnic up the river with Lady Strathconnell.

We went from Windsor to Cookham.
Mar--Miss Trelawny was in my boat.

I scull a little, and I had my own boat at Windsor.

We had a good deal of conversation--naturally." "Naturally!" there was just a suspicion of something sardonic in the tone of acquiescence; but there was no other intimation of his feeling.
I began to think that as I was in the presence of a strong man, I should show something of my own strength.

My friends, and sometimes my opponents, say that I am a strong man.