Sophy, you must hear what the captain has said.
Oh, you killing, funny man--you must repeat that lovely joke to Sophy." "Excuse me, it was only meant for Miss Matty's ears." Matty stopped laughing, to blush all over her face, and Sophy thought it more decorous to turn her back on the pair.
"Does not that green boat belong to Miss Meadowsweet ?" interrupted Bertram.

"Look, Miss Bell, I am sure that is Miss Meadowsweet's boat." (He had seen it for the last ten minutes, and had been secretly hoping that Mrs.Bell would unconsciously steer in that direction; she was going the other way, however, and he was obliged to speak.) "Yes, that's Beatrice," said Matty, in an indifferent tone.

"She generally goes for a row in the evening." "All alone like that ?" "Yes, Mrs.Meadowsweet is such a coward.

She is afraid of the water." "Poor Miss Meadowsweet, how sad for her to be by herself!" Matty gave a furtive and not too well-pleased glance at her captain.
"Bee likes to be alone," she said.
"I should never have thought it.

She seems a sociable, bright sort of girl.