She waited until he had pushed his chair back and lit a pipe, and then without any preface plunged into the subject with an enthusiasm which she endeavoured in vain to make contagious.

The captain listened in silence and turned a somewhat worried face in her direction when she had finished.
"We can't all think alike," he said, feebly, as she waited with flushed cheeks and sparkling eyes for the verdict.

"I told you he hadn't taken the map.

As for those three idiots and their harebrained voyage--" "But Mr.Tredgold said that he didn't believe in the treasure," said the wrathful Prudence.

"One thing is, he can never come here again; I think that I made him understand that.