At his right was a chatty old gentleman and at his left a demure lady who ate in silence.

Strangeness, however, is soon worn off when a company of people must eat at the same table for a week; that is, if the dreaded sea-sickness does not interfere too much with the gathering together at meal-time.
Towards evening the rain ceased.

As the darkness came on, the clouds billowed across the vast upper expanse.

Chester and his new-made friends paced the deck and watched the night settle on the water, and enclose the ship in its folds.

They talked of the strange new experience on ship-board, then they told somewhat of each other's personal history.
The sea was rough, and the ship pitched more and more as it met the swells of the Atlantic.