O, don't be so exceedingly silly! O, please, come!' Still there was no reply.
'If he is here he must be mad,' she thought, with a little fear.

And the next moment she remembered he had probably gone aboard like herself in a boat.

In that case she might as well see the houseboat, and she pushed open the door and stepped in.

Under the table, where he lay smothered with dust, Gideon's heart stood still.
There were the remains of Jimson's lunch.

'He likes rather nice things to eat,' she thought.