They were very friendly young ladies, if a little slangy, invited him around to their staterooms, and offered to show him the runs around New York.

Philip escaped after about an hour and made his way to where Elizabeth was reclining in her deck chair.
"That fellow Romilly," he declared irritably, "the other one, I mean, seems to have had the vilest tastes.

If I am to be landed with any more of his ridiculous indiscretions, I think I shall have to go overboard.
There was an enterprising gentleman named Gayes in Liverpool, who nearly drove me crazy, then there's this Mr.Lawton who wants to talk about lasts, and finally it seems that I dined at the Trocadero and spent the evening at the Empire and Murray's with the two very obvious-looking young ladies who accosted me just now.

I am beginning to believe that Douglas' life was not above suspicion." She smiled at him tolerantly.

An unopened book lay by her side.