into the lagoon, and buried them.' He looked over his shoulder, back at the bright water.

'Well, so you'll come to dinner, then?
Shall we say half-past six.

So good of you!' His voice, in uttering these conventional phrases, fell at once into the false measure of society; and Herrick unconsciously followed the example.
'I am sure we shall be very glad,' he said.

'At half-past six?
Thank you so very much.' '"For my voice has been tuned to the note of the gun That startles the deep when the combat's begun,"' quoted Attwater, with a smile, which instantly gave way to an air of funereal solemnity.

'I shall particularly expect Mr Whish,' he continued.