I can't help that.' 'I shouldn't think you would if you could,' Dacres remarked absently; but the sea air, perhaps, enabled me to digest his thoughtlessness with a smile.
'No,' I said, 'I am just as well pleased.

I think a resemblance to me would confuse me, often.' There was a trace of scrutiny in Dacres's glance.

'Don't you find yourself in sympathy with her ?' he asked.
'My dear boy, I have seen her just twice in twenty-one years! You see, I've always stuck to John.' 'But between mother and daughter--I may be old-fashioned, but I had an idea that there was an instinct that might be depended on.' 'I am depending on it,' I said, and let my eyes follow the little blue waves that chased past the hand-rail.

'We are making very good speed, aren't we?
Thirty-five knots since last night at ten.

Are you in the sweep ?' 'I never bet on the way out--can't afford it.