The name of the steamer was the _Carnatic_.
Did you ever hear of that ship ?" She was looking at him attentively.

He waited for her reply; she made none; and he went on.
"The man had asked the girl something--I don't know what--I don't know why her gray eyes filled with tears.

Perhaps it was because she could not do what the man asked her to do.

It may have been to love him; it may have been that he was asking her to marry him and that she couldn't.
Perhaps that is why there were tears in her eyes--because she may have been sorry to cause him the pain of refusal--sorry, perhaps, perhaps a little guilty.

Because she must have seen that he was falling in love with her, and she--she let him--knowing all the time that she was to marry another man.