Marriage in such haste and under such circumstances could scarcely be other than a mistake, and considering the quality of Benis Spence, a most serious one.
John Rogers was very fond of his eccentric friend and the threatened disaster loomed almost personal.

He felt himself to blame too, for the advice which had thrown Spence directly from the frying-pan of Aunt Caroline into the fire of a sterner fate.

Add to all this a keen feeling of unwarranted intrusion and we have some idea of the state of mind with which Dr.John Rogers saw the white tents of the campers as the steamer put in at Friendly Bay.
"There are two tents," said Aunt Caroline lowering her lorgnette.

"I shall be quite comfortable." The doctor did not smile.

His sense of humor was suffering from temporary exhaustion and his strongest consciousness was a feeling of relief that neither Benis nor anyone else appeared to notice their arrival.