"Can't have been ramming if he bagged two of them, and they surely never came to the surface voluntarily, with a destroyer about." Geraldine glanced around the room to be sure that they were alone.
"Don't you remember when Olive and I were at Portsmouth ?" she said.
"Ralph has been absolutely dumb about it but he did just give us a hint that he had a little surprise in store for the submarines.

There was something on deck, covered all up and watched by a sentry, and just before we sat down to lunch, you know, we were turned off and had to go to the 'Ship'.

Ralph wouldn't tell us a word about it but I'm sure he's got some new contrivance on the _Scorpion_ for fighting the submarines." "There may be something in it," the Admiral admitted cheerfully.

"I noticed the Morning Post naval man the other day made a very guarded reference to some secret means of dealing with these vermin." Lady Conyers sailed into the room, a telegram in her hand.
"A wireless from Ralph," she announced.

"Listen." Have sunk two of the brutes.