I can stand a good deal, but I sat between you and that young fellow, and you couldn't tell whether he was looking at that girl or not." "I could! I could tell by the expression of her face." "Oh, well! If it's gone as far as that with you, I give it up.

When are you going to have them married ?" "Nonsense! I want you to find out who all those people are.

How are you going to do it ?" "Perhaps the passenger list will say," he suggested.
VIII.
The list did not say of itself, but with the help of the head steward's diagram it said that the gentleman at the head of the table was Mr.R.
M.Kenby; the father and the daughter were Mr.E.B.Triscoe and Miss Triscoe; the bridal pair were Mr.and Mrs.Leffers; the mother and her son were Mrs.Adding and Mr.Roswell Adding; the young man who came in last was Mr.L.J.Burnamy.

March carried the list, with these names carefully checked and rearranged on a neat plan of the table, to his wife in her steamer chair, and left her to make out the history and the character of the people from it.

In this sort of conjecture long experience had taught him his futility, and he strolled up and down and looked at the life about him with no wish to penetrate it deeply.
Long Island was now a low yellow line on the left.