Anyhow, she won't leave until she steps on shore to be married, or safer still, till I can get a clergyman on board to marry us there.

Would you like to go with us ?" "If the thing bursts up, there is nothing I should like better." "You will have to help me carry her off, Jim, and the day that she signs her name Bertha Carthew I will give you a couple of thousand pounds." "That is a bargain," the man said.

"It is a good scheme altogether, if we can hit upon some plan for carrying her away." "It is of no use to think of that, until we know where she will be.
I don't see at present how it is to be done, but I know that there is always a way if one can think of it.

You telegraph to me every day Poste Restante, Ostend, or wherever I am stopping.

I will send you the name of the hotel I put up at directly I get there.