Any one must have known it.

And yet I was not afraid; I wonder why?
And he--he laughed--that was all.

Mon Dieu! he was brave.

I never knew that any one could be so brave!" She broke off suddenly, with her finger to her lips; for some one had opened the cabin door.

Captain Clubbe came in, filling the whole cabin with his bulk, and on his heels followed Loo Barebone, his face and hair still wet and dripping.
"Mademoiselle was wondering," said Dormer Colville, who, it seemed, was quick to step into that silence which the object of a conversation is apt to cause--"Mademoiselle was wondering how it was that you escaped shipwreck in the storm." "Ah! because one has a star.