It was the New Yorkers who were sumptuous in such matters, as he had been told.

He had also heard casually that the passenger list on this voyage was to record important names, the names of multi-millionaire people who were going over for the London season.
Two stewards talking near him, earlier in the morning, had been exulting over the probable largesse such a list would result in at the end of the passage.
"The Worthingtons and the Hirams and the John William Spayters," said one.

"They travel all right.

They know what they want and they want a good deal, and they're willing to pay for it." "Yes.

They're not school teachers going over to improve their minds and contriving to cross in a big ship by economising in everything else.
Miss Vanderpoel's sailing with the Worthingtons.