In fact, we slept till three in the afternoon, or at least I did, for I awoke to find Maud cooking dinner.
Her power of recuperation was wonderful.

There was something tenacious about that lily-frail body of hers, a clutch on existence which one could not reconcile with its patent weakness.
"You know I was travelling to Japan for my health," she said, as we lingered at the fire after dinner and delighted in the movelessness of loafing.

"I was not very strong.

I never was.

The doctors recommended a sea voyage, and I chose the longest." "You little knew what you were choosing," I laughed.
"But I shall be a different women for the experience, as well as a stronger woman," she answered; "and, I hope a better woman.