"However, it looks as if some engineering talent is all he has got, and I think a long voyage is indicated--" He stopped, and resumed with a twinkle: "For all that, the fellow is not an adventurer, and I married a rich woman." Mrs.Cartwright gave him a gentle smile.

"I have been happy and Barbara is not; but, in one sense, I don't imagine we need be disturbed.

Barbara has not recovered from the jar." She got up, and Cartwright dozed until he heard a step and Lister crossed the floor.
"Hallo!" he said.

"Are you going?
There is no train just now." Lister said he meant to walk to the tramline, but Cartwright asked him to stop for a few minutes.
"Barbara tells me you are trying for a post in an engine-room," he remarked.
"That is so," said Lister with a touch of embarrassment.

"Still, I didn't mean Miss Hyslop to bother you." "Barbara likes to meddle and I'm a ship-owner.