He had seen her in blue water: he had seen her readiness to jump to the rescue once when a market-woman, stepping out of a boat to his yacht on the Tabus, plumped in.

She had the two kinds of courage--the impulsive and the reasoned.

What is life to man or woman if we are not to live it honourably?
Men worthy of the name say this.

The woman who says and acts on it is--well, she is fit company for them.

But only the woman of natural courage can say it and act on it.
Would she come by Winchester, or choose the lower road by Salisbury and Southampton, to smell the sea?
perhaps-like her!--dismissing the chariot and hiring a yacht for a voyage round the coast and up the Thames.