He has the gout, and his lady has the megrims." "Do you depend upon that ?" She was frankly scornful.
"You have certainly never had the gout; probably not even the megrims," said he.
She made a little impatient movement with her hand, and looked away from him a moment, out to sea.

Quite suddenly she looked at him again; and now her brows were knit.
"But if you are not a rebel, how come you here ?" He saw the thing she apprehended, and he laughed.

"Faith, now, it's a long story," said he.
"And one perhaps that you would prefer not to tell ?" Briefly on that he told it her.
"My God! What an infamy!" she cried, when he had done.
"Oh, it's a sweet country England under King James! There's no need to commiserate me further.

All things considered I prefer Barbados.

Here at least one can believe in God." He looked first to right, then to left as he spoke, from the distant shadowy bulk of Mount Hillbay to the limitless ocean ruffled by the winds of heaven.