What is to prevent my sending the ticket for it ?" "Nothing--if you want to communicate your address by means of your box--nothing whatever.

Think; pray think! Do you really suppose that the people who are looking for you are such fools as not to have an eye on the cloakroom?
Do you think they are such fools--when they find you don't come to Mr.Huxtable's at eight to-night--as not to inquire at all the hotels?
Do you think a young lady of your striking appearance (even if they consented to receive you) could take up her abode at an inn without becoming the subject of universal curiosity and remark?
Here is night coming on as fast as it can.

Don't let me bore you; only let me ask once more--Where are you to sleep ?" There was no answer to that question: in Magdalen's position, there was literally no answer to it on her side.

She was silent.
"Where are you to sleep ?" repeated the captain.

"The reply is obvious--under my roof.