The rich up-springing sweep of her abundant hair, her height, her colouring, the remarkable shade and length of her lashes, the full curve of her mouth, all, he told himself, looked expensive, as if even nature herself had been given carte blanche, and the best possible articles procured for the money.
"She moves," he thought sardonically, "as if she were perfectly aware that she could pay for anything.

An unlimited income, no doubt, establishes in the owner the equivalent to a sense of rank." He changed his position for one in which he could command a view of the promenade deck where the arriving passengers were gradually appearing.
He did this from the idle and careless curiosity which, though it is not a matter of absolute interest, does not object to being entertained by passing objects.

He saw the Worthington party reappear.

It struck Salter that they looked not so much like persons coming on board a ship, as like people who were returning to a hotel to which they were accustomed, and which was also accustomed to them.

He argued that they had probably crossed the Atlantic innumerable times in this particular steamer.
The deck stewards knew them and made obeisance with empressement.