"Is there anything you have to buy before we sail?
If there is, we must attend to it now, because we leave at a most outlandish hour in the morning." Miss Vernon looked alarmed for a moment, the real enormity of the escapade striking her with full force.

But she smiled in the next and said that she could make a few necessary purchases in a few minutes if he would direct the cabman.

"It's a long way to Manila, you know," she said.

"Hugh, I noticed in the paper the other day that this is the season for typhoons, or whatever you call them, in the Indian Ocean.

I looked them up in the dictionary.