I mean here, on board ship.

I linger up on deck, half hiding myself about the place, till I see some quartermaster eying me suspiciously and then I creep down into the little hole which I occupy with three of Mrs.Crompton's children and then I cry myself to sleep.

But I don't call that going to bed.' 'Take a turn now.' 'I shall feel like the housemaid talking to her follower through the area-gate.

But she is brave, and why should I be a coward ?' Then she put her hand upon his arm.

'And you,' she said, 'why are not you dancing in the other part of the ship with Mrs.Callander and Miss Green, instead of picking your way among the hencoops here with me ?' 'This suited my pocket best,--and my future prospects.' 'You are making a delightful experiment in roughing it,--as people eat pic-nic dinners out in the woods occasionally, so that there may be a break in the monotony of chairs and tables.' While Shand had been unravelling her mystery, she, perhaps, had been more successful in unravelling his.
'We intend to be miners.' 'And to return home before long with some vast treasure.