[The Tidal Wave and Other Stories by Ethel May Dell]@TWC D-Link bookThe Tidal Wave and Other Stories CHAPTER XII 96/469
Anyhow, it's all right now.
I am going to tell the steward to bring coffee." He got up leisurely and strolled away. There was a slight commotion on the other side of the door as he opened it, a giggle that sounded rather hysterical.
A moment later Lady Jane Grey; her head-gear gone, her shorn curls looking absurdly frivolous, walked mincingly into the saloon and subsided upon the nearest seat.
She was attended by Captain Fisher, who looked anxious. "Such a misfortune!" she remarked, in a squeaky voice that sounded, somehow, a horrible strain.
"I have been shut up in the Tower and have only just escaped.
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