And if you come back to England, leave your address at the Company's office for me; for it ain't an easy matter to find anyone out, in London, unless you have got their bearings right." Ten days later, Mrs.Holland and Dick embarked on the Madras.

Dick had been warned, by his mother, to say nothing to anyone on board as to the object of their voyage.
"I shall mention," she said, "that I am going out to make some inquiries respecting the truth of a report that has reached me, that some of those on board the Hooghley, of which my husband was captain, survived the wreck, and were taken up the country.

That will be quite sufficient.

Say nothing about my having been born in India, or that my father was a native rajah.

Some of these officials--and still more, their wives--are very prejudiced, and consider themselves to be quite different beings to the natives of the country.