Sorry if I disturbed you," and she was pounding on the other door.

She glanced back at the stranger's door involuntarily and then away instantly.

He was staring at her in a most uncalled-for manner.
And Hugh did not answer! She rapped again and--no response.

The calm voice of the stranger came to her reddening ears.
"The gentleman who occupies that room just passed me, going on deck.
Straight ahead.

That's right." He called the last injunction after her swiftly departing form.
"Thank you," came back to him with a breath between the words.