I expect we'll come to an end of her soon, but we can at all events decide where we'll go to-morrow." The yacht turned out to be a more fruitful subject than Meldon expected.

The Major had made some alterations in her trim, which led to an animated discussion.

He also had a plan for changing her from a cutter into a yawl, and Meldon was quite ready to argue out the points of advantage and disadvantage in each rig.

It was half-past eleven o'clock before they parted for the night, and even then they had not decided where to go next day..