The odds are a thousand to one that a company which has never lost a vessel at sea will not lose any particular one you name.

Nevertheless, he arranged to be called up in the night, if her lights were sighted, and he returned somewhat disconsolately to the hotel.

Again he bethought him that if he told the Countess he had passed the day in the steamer office she would overrate his anxiety and so increase her own.
Margaret was really very unreasonable.

There was not the slightest doubt that the steamer was safe, but she had become possessed, as Lady Victoria expressed it, by this unaccountable presentiment, that her fair-haired lover was gone from her for ever.

Hideous things came up before her, poor drowned faces in the green swirl of the waves, men dead, and dying men grasping frantically at the white water-crests breaking over them, as though the rushing foam were a firm thing and could save them.