"So am I; but I'm still more glad that I have been able to meet you so soon.

You are looking--well." Poor fellow! He wanted to say, "more beautiful than ever; and I love you." "You are happy, I hope ?" "Quite," Celia replied, raising a face that was radiant.

And at that moment she was happy indeed, suffused with a strange, sweet happiness which she did not understand.

"I have got a splendid berth.

But, of course, you know, or you wouldn't be here.