She had been sometimes lively and almost excitable; more generally quiet, depressed, and silent even beyond her wont.

Still, her manner and bearing were always so equable, gentle, and docile that, accustomed to the caprices of the sex on Earth, I had hardly noticed the change.

I thought, however, that she was to-day nervous and somewhat pale; and as she did not return, after permitting the pilot to seek a calmer stratum at some five fathoms depth, I followed Eveena into our cabin or chamber.

Standing with her back to the entrance and with a goblet to her lips, she did not hear me till I had approached within arm's length.

She then started violently, so agitated that the colour faded at once from her countenance, leaving it white as in a swoon, then as suddenly returning, flushed her neck and face, from the emerald shoulder clasps to the silver snood, with a pink deeper than that of her robe.
"I am very sorry I startled you," I said.