Well, well, I wonder what she is like.

Of course, I shouldn't know her from Eve now, or she me from Adam.

All I can remember seems to be a pair of very slim and active legs, a lot of flying hair, a pair of brownish-gray or grayish-brown eyes, and that I thought her a very nice girl, as girls went.

But it doesn't in the least follow that I might think so now, and shipboard is pretty close quarters for seven or eight days." Dinner is by all odds the chief event of the day on board ship to those who are able to dine, and they will leave all other attractions, even the surpassingly interesting things which go on in the smoking-room, at once on the sound of the gong of promise.

On this first night of the voyage the ship was still in smooth water at dinner time, and many a place was occupied which would know its occupant for the first, and very possibly for the last, time.