If Miss King is behaving now as she ought to be; if she has taken that wet hat off his head and stopped it wringing his brow; if, as I confidently expect, she is showing herself a ministering angel, we shall most likely find them sitting in a most affectionate attitude when we get back." Miss King did not do her duty.

When Meldon and Major Kent returned, lobsterless, after half an hour's absence, they found Mr.Simpkins sitting on a stone by himself with the wet hat still on his head.

Miss King was a long way off, stumbling about among the stones at the water's edge.

She may, perhaps, have been trying to catch lobsters.
The voyage home was most unpleasant for every one except Meldon.

The wind had risen slightly since morning, and the motion of the yacht in running before it was very trying.