You are very good to me." They sauntered a little way in silence.

Then: "When does Captain Glennie sail ?" she asked him.

"Is it decided yet ?" "Yes.

I have just heard from him that the Telemachus will put to sea on Sunday morning at two o'clock." "At two o'clock in the morning! What an uncomfortable hour!" "Tides, as King Canute discovered, are beyond mortal control.

The Telemachus goes out with the ebb.