Her face looked white, and he thought that she was breathing quickly.

But they had always been friends; he remembered that just in time.
"It is only natural that I should look forward, when we are at sea, to coming back here--" He paused and kicked the turf-wall with his heel, as if to remind her that she had sat in the same corner before and he had leant against the same wall, talking to her.

"They are good fellows, of course, with a hundred fine qualities which I lack, but they do not understand half that one may say, or think--even the Captain.

He is well educated, in his way, but it is only the way of a coasting-captain who has risen by his merits to the command of a foreign-going ship." Miriam gave an impatient little sigh.

He had veered again from the point.
"You think that I forget that he is my relative," said Loo, sharply, detecting in his quickness of thought a passing resentment.