A jeweller had told me that the ring was worth sixty pounds, and the watch and chain forty; but how difficult and dangerous it would be for me to sell either of them! Practically my means were limited to the eight bank-notes of five pounds each.

I kept out one for the payment of my passage, and then replaced the rest, and carefully pinned them into the unstitched lining.
Then I began to wonder what my destination was.

I knew nothing whatever of the Channel Islands, except the names which I had learned at school--Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark.

I repeated these over and over again to myself; but which of them we were bound for, or if we were about to call at each one of them, I did not know.

I should have been more at home had I gone to Paris.
As the light grew I became restless, and at last I left my berth and ventured to climb the cabin-steps.