Rossland's inexplicable rudeness had disturbed her more deeply than she had admitted, he believed.
"There are a number of Thlinkit Indians and a tame bear down in what we should ordinarily call the steerage.

Would you like to see them ?" he asked, when they were outside.

"The Thlinkit girls are the prettiest Indian women in the world, and there are two among those below who are--well--unusually good-looking, the Captain says." "And he has already made me acquainted with them," she laughed softly.
"Kolo and Haidah are the girls.

They are sweet, and I love them.

I had breakfast with them this morning long before you were awake." "The deuce you say! And that is why you were not at table?
And the morning before--" "You noticed my absence ?" she asked demurely.
"It was difficult for me not to see an empty chair.