When was it ?" "When I came back from Calcutta, your ladyship, and the Rover was wrecked.

Your father ordered the crew home.

I was first mate, your ladyship remembers, and had to look after them.

Some six years agone, I take it." "Yes, it all comes back to me now," she answered dreamily "six years--is it not more than that ?" "No, your ladyship.

Just about six." She paused, rested her head on her hand, and looked at him intently from beneath the wave of hair that had dropped again about her brow, and asked: "Why do you still call me 'your ladyship' Stephen ?" "Well, I don't know, your ladyship.