I could see she was registering a mental determination to go straight up-country the moment she landed.
"Not a bit of it!" the Captain answered, with provoking cheerfulness.
"Rampaging about like a roaring lion all over India!" Lady Meadowcroft's thumb must have suffered severely.

The nails dug into it as if it were someone else's.
Half an hour later, as we were on deck in the cool of the evening, the thing was settled.

"My wife," Sir Ivor said, coming up to us with a serious face, "has delivered her ultimatum.

Positively her ultimatum.
I've had a mort o' trouble with her, and now she's settled.

EITHER, she goes back from Bombay by the return steamer; OR ELSE--you and Miss Wade must name your own terms to accompany us on our tour, in case of emergencies." He glanced wistfully at Hilda.