But I should think that sort of air, made fresh from the water, would be very damp.

It's very different from the air we are used to, which is warmed by the sun and properly aired." "Aired air seems funny to me," remarked Sammy.
There was fascination, not at all surprising, about the great glass lights in the Dipsey, and whenever a man was off duty he was pretty sure to be at one of these windows if he could get there.

At first Mrs.Block was afraid to look out of any of them.

It made her blood creep, she said, to stare out into all that solemn water.

For the first two days, when she could get no one to talk to her, she passed most of her time sitting in the cabin, holding in one of her hands a dustbrush, and in the other a farmer's almanac.