She had hardly a word to say.

Let me step in again to observe that she had at the moment no pointed intention of marrying Tinman.

To her mind the circumstances compelled her to embark on the idea of doing so, and she saw the extremity in an extreme distance, as those who are taking voyages may see death by drowning.

Still she had embarked.
"At all events, I have your word for it that you don't dislike me ?" said Herbert.
"Oh! no," she sighed.

She liked him as emigrants the land they are leaving.
"And you have not promised your hand ?" "No," she said, but sighed in thinking that if she could be induced to promise it, there would not be a word of leaving England.
"Then, as you are not engaged, and don't hate me, I have a chance ?" he said, in the semi-wailful interrogative of an organ making a mere windy conclusion.
Ocean sent up a tiny wave at their feet.
"A day like this in winter is rarer than a summer day," Herbert resumed encouragingly.
Annette was replying, "People abuse our climate--" But the thought of having to go out away from this climate in the darkness of exile, with her father to suffer under it worse than herself, overwhelmed her, and fetched the reality of her sorrow in the form of Tinman swimming before her soul with the velocity of a telegraph-pole to the window of the flying train.