You did not, of course, know that she was coming here." "I knew nothing of her but that she was a saloon passenger with a suite of staterooms, and I was in the second cabin.

Nothing?
That is not quite true, perhaps.

Stewards and passengers gossip, and one cannot close one's ears.

Of course one heard constant reiteration of the number of millions her father possessed, and the number of cabins she managed to occupy.

During the confusion and alarm of the collision, we spoke to each other." He did not mention the other occasion on which he had seen her.