Only it pleased certain people to think that Miss Green might be fond of the doctor if she chose, and that Mrs.Smith had no right to be fond of any man.

There was a stubbornness about both the sinners which resolved to set public opinion at defiance.

The very fact that others wished to interfere with him made Caldigate determined to resent all interference; and the woman, with perhaps a deeper insight into her own advantages, was brave enough to be able to set opposition at defiance.
They were about a week from their port when the captain,--Captain Munday,--was induced to take the matter into his own hands.

It is hardly too much to say that he was pressed to do so by the united efforts of the first-class passengers.

It was dreadful to think that this unfortunate young man should go on shore merely to become the prey of such a woman as that.