Upon their first visit she elected to talk upon the Alps mountains.

The Sunday following it was bacteriology; on the next Wednesday it was crystals; while for two hours during their next visit to the station, Condy and Blix were obliged to listen to K.D.B.'s interminable discourse on the origin, history, and development of the kingdom of Denmark.

Condy was dumfounded.
"I never met such a person, man or woman, in all my life.

Talk about education! Why, I think she knows everything!" "In Defiance of Authority" soon began to make good progress, but Condy, once launched upon technical navigation, must have Captain Jack at his elbow continually, to keep him from foundering.

In some sea novel he remembered to have come across the expression "garboard streak," and from the context guessed it was to be applied to a detail of a vessel's construction.