If you receive tidings that shall bring you again into its neighbourhood, do not lose the opportunity of re-entering it....

And now let me take leave of you, as of a dear friend I may not meet again." "Do you know," I said, more touched by the tone than by the words, "that Eveena asked and I gave a promise that when I do re-enter it she shall be my companion ?" "I did not know it, but I took for granted that she would desire it, and I should have been grieved to doubt that you would assent.

I cannot disturb her peace by saying to her what I have just said to you, and must part from her as on any ordinary occasion." That parting, happily, I did not witness.

Before evening we re-entered our vessel, and returned home without any incident worthy of mention.
To my surprise, my return plunged me at once into the kind of vexation which Eveena had so anxiously endeavoured to spare me, and which I had hoped Eunane's greater decision and less exaggerated tenderness would have avoided.

She seemed excited and almost fretful, and before we had been half an hour at home had greeted me with a string of complaints which, on her own showing, seemed frivolous, and argued as much temper on her part as customary petulance on that of others.