"You are not at all the person I thought you were.
Whatever I may have fancied about you, I never imagined you a cynic or a grumbler." "I suppose it brings out the worst side of my nature, too," he laughed.
"When you come down on board the Osprey, Miss Greendale, you will see the other side.

I fancy one falls into the tone of one's surroundings.
Here I have caught the tone of the bored man of society, there you will see that I shall be a breezy sailor--cheerful in storm or in calm, ready to take my glass and to toast my lass and all the rest of it in true nautical fashion." "I hope so," she said, gravely.

"I shall certainly need something of the sort to correct the very unfavourable impression you have just been giving me.

Now let us change the subject.

You have not told me yet whether you had any flirtations in India." "Flirtations!" he repeated.