A very agreeable woman she was.' 'They say that you promised to marry her when on board.' 'Then they lie.

But that is a matter of course.

There are so many lies going about that I almost feel myself to be famous.' 'You did not see her after the journey ?' 'Yes, I did.

I saw her act at Sydney; and very well she acted.

Have you anything else to ask ?' Robert Bolton said that he had nothing else to ask,--and seemed, at the moment, to turn his half-serious mood into one that was altogether jocular.