She was humbugging her husband, not me.

Fool that I was, I could not mind my own business." So Mrs.Costobell was not flirting with the man who suffered on her account.

It is a regrettable but true statement that Iris would willingly have hugged Mrs.Costobell at that moment.

She walked on air during the next half-hour of golden silence, and Jenks did not remind her that they were passing the gruesome Valley of Death.
Rounding Europa Point, the sailor's eyes were fixed on their immediate surroundings, but Iris gazed dreamily ahead.

Hence it was that she was the first to cry in amazement-- "A boat! See, there! On the rocks!" There was no mistake.