" She paused deliberately, and looked me straight the eyes.
"Of bedbugs," she concluded.

And then, all seriousness and practicality, she went on: "But we'll have that righted in a jiffy.

I'll turn the _Elsinore's_ after-quarters upside down, though I know there are none in father's room or mine.

And though this is my first voyage with Mr.Pike I know he's too hard-bitten" (here I laughed at her involuntary pun) "an old sailor not to know that his room is clean.

Yours" (I was perturbed for fear she was going to say that I had brought them on board) "have most probably drifted in from for'ard.