But then the nearest boat had a piano on board, and some one was constantly playing dance music.

Gilray had an idea that it would have been the proper thing to leave Molesey when she said "No;" and he would have done so had not the barbel-fishing been so good.

The barbel-fishing was altogether unfortunate--at least Gilray's passion for it was.

I have thought--and so sometimes has Gilray--that if it had not been for a barbel she might not have said "No." He was fishing from the house-boat when he asked the question.

You know how you fish from a house-boat.