Have I mistaken the number?
Surely these are his rooms ?" Catherine attempted to explain.

"They _were_ Captain Bennydeck's rooms," she began; "but he was so kind, although we are perfect strangers to him--" Mrs.Presty interposed.

"My dear Catherine, you have not had my advantages; you have not been taught to make a complicated statement in few words.

Permit me to seize the points (in the late Mr.Presty's style) and to put them in the strongest light.

This place, Randal, is always full; and we didn't write long enough beforehand to secure rooms.
Captain Bennydeck happened to be downstairs when he heard that we were obliged to go away, and that one of us was a lady in delicate health.
This sweetest of men sent us word that we were welcome to take his rooms, and that he would sleep on board his yacht.