Griggs, being on his other side, had not seen it, and it meant nothing to Miss More.

To the latter's surprise Margaret pushed her heavy rug from her knees and let her feet slip from the chair to the ground.

Her eyes met Griggs's as she rose, and seeing that his look asked her whether he was to carry out her previous instructions and walk beside her, she shook her head.
'Nine times out of ten, proverbs are true,' he said in a tone of amusement.
Mr.Van Torp's hard face expressed no triumph when Margaret stood beside him, ready to walk.

She had yielded, as he had been sure she would; he turned from the other passengers to go round to the weather side of the ship, and she went with him submissively.

Just at the point where the wind and the fine spray would have met them if they had gone on, he stopped in the lee of a big ventilator.