He will be at sea now." "And we shall be there in a few days.

When I am at the seaside I always feel a delicious torpor; yet Nelly Baldwin told me she loved an Atlantic passage because she had such fun on board.

You have crossed several times, Ruth; is it fun or torpor ?" "All mirth at sea soon fades away, Ethel.

Passengers are a very dull class of people, and they know it; they rebel against it, but every hour it becomes more natural to be dull.

Very soon all mentally accommodate themselves to being bored, dreamy and dreary.