Sea mist in the Channel." Hilda sat uneasily in her deck-chair.

"That's bad," she answered; "for the first officer is taking no more heed of Ushant than of his latter end.

He has forgotten the existence of the Breton coast.

His head is just stuffed with Mrs.Ogilvy's eyelashes.

Very pretty, long eyelashes, too; I don't deny it; but they won't help him to get through the narrow channel.