Meeting him on deck--the outline of the coast of Portugal for an introductory subject, our Peninsular battles and so forth--I spoke of her enthusiasm.

The effect was, to cut off all communication between us.

I had only to appear, Lord Ormont vanished.

I said to myself, this is a character.
However, the very mention of him to my niece, as one of the passengers on board--medicine, miraculous! She was up in half an hour, out pacing the deck before evening, hardly leaning on my arm, and the colour positively beginning to show on her cheeks again.

He fled, of coarse.
I had prepared her for his eccentricities.