What answer could she give?
"We are--are just taking the trip for pleasure," she stammered.

"Hugh and I took a sudden notion to go to Manila and--and--well, we are going, that's all." "You don't mean to say you are making this as a pleasure trip ?" he asked, staring at her with a different light in his eyes.
"A mere whim, you know," she hurried on.

"Look at those Arabs over there." "But a pleasure trip of this kind must be awfully expensive, isn't it ?" he insisted.
She hesitated for an instant and then said boldly: "You see, Mr.Veath, Hugh and I are very rich.

It may not sound well for me to say it, but we have much more money than we know how to spend.

The cost of this voyage is a mere trifle.