At sea you have always to look for your musicians among the second-class passengers.

And now under the awning young and old were standing up, and making themselves happy beneath the starlight and the glimmer of the dozen ship-lamps which had been hung around.

On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing.

You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship.

You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.
It was not for John Caldigate to join the mazes of that dance, though he would have liked it well, and was well fitted by skill and taste for such exercise.