You went up to town leaving me in the inn.

I slept ashore.

In the morning Mr.Powell came in for breakfast; and after the first awkwardness of meeting a man you have been yarning with over- night had worn off, we discovered a liking for each other." As I had discovered the fact of their mutual liking before either of them, I was not surprised.
"And so you kept in touch," I said.
"It was not so very difficult.

As he was always knocking about the river I hired Dingle's sloop-rigged three-tonner to be more on an equality.
Powell was friendly but elusive.

I don't think he ever wanted to avoid me.